Word: harum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haven for waifs and strays (including, finally, Mrs. Bender). Quietly too she tends her struggling rooftop garden and keeps trying to talk Cyril into having a child. What can you do these days but make a warm place to nurture people -- and some small hopes for a less harum-scarum future? Perhaps pause to admire a brave and subtle film that knowingly explores ideas, even ideologies, but never dries up emotionally -- a film that never puts its characters' duties to metaphor ahead of their prime obligation, which is to live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity...
...conflicts of cultural politics may come and go, but the Moiseyev troupe is still stepping smartly through the pastoral frolic of Polyanka (a small meadow), the gentle gibes of the Old City Quadrille and the patriotic harum- scarum of Partisans, signature pieces all. Even the newer works on the program -- the dazzling, how-do-they-do-that At the Skating Rink and the wackily erotic Night on Bald Mountain -- show the same disciplined panache familiar to Americans from earlier visits...
Glance again to the right. These are rare photos, records of something no one expects to find in a high-speed, high-tech, high-action movie these days. They are pictures of a character acting not out of the dictates of a harum-scarum plot but because she is heeding the call of a vulnerable heart. Amazing! What will they think of next...
Schlesinger says he and his fellow mandarins agreed to play their roles, without pay, "to demonstrate that U.S. Governments do not act in a harum-scarum manner." To that end they sat in ABC's Washington studios for 18 hours over a recent weekend. As they argued the twists and turns of the crisis before them, the controllers, watching on TV monitors, played the rest of the world-Moscow, NATO, Congress, the U.S. press...
...community. The dances begin the long screening process, which will eventually whittle the 28 applicants to a final company of eight, as strangers, linked only by their love of a common career. As the audition progresses, and they are forced one by one by the demanding director Zach (Eivind Harum) to reveal their anxieties and fantasies, the actors draw closer. By the time the final selections are made, they have formed a supportive brotherhood...