Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Playhouse has produced an adaptation of The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux that is remarkable for both its lightness and its sensitivity. It never bogs down in convoluted intellectual satire, as can easily happen when a less skillful company tackles Giraudoux; yet it does sacrifice ideas for either liveliness or wistfulness. Idea, or more specifically, idealism, is not buried. Its threads are carefully woven together in the first act and triumphantly knotted in the second. Evil falls victim to its own greed, love blooms again, and innocence reawakens...
...matter of taste, of course, but at a very basic level. More than anything else, Ermanno Olmi's direction reminds me of the poetry of John Dryden. I happen to like Dryden. Many do not. Throughout the movie Olmi maintains a perfect balance between the melancholy and the ridiculous. And--what is the crucial point--he makes of his small short story something greater than itself...
...follow emergency events as they happen, the Joint Chiefs have the facilities of a Pentagon suite called the National Military Command Center, complete with communications hookups spanning 25 million miles and linking the Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, every major U.S. military base around the world, and the White House-Kremlin hot line, which is manned 24 hours a day by three Russian-speaking J.C.S. staffers. One of the most interesting pieces of equipment in the center is a console that carries the legends: "Minutes to Next Impact," "Predicted Impact" and "Actual Impact...
...What do you think's going to happen to the HCUA...
...armed bandits? Impossible. Even when confronted with Australian press reports that the group had coined $225,000 in slot-machine jack pots before they were banned for life from most of New South Wales's gam bling clubs, Nevada's big wheels insisted "it could never happen here...