Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he has been out of the organization for a decade, the brother is compelled by honor to help Kilmer. The Yakuza is much concerned with these matters of duty. The obligation is a burden, but the brother takes a grave pride in helping his sister's old lover. What is canny in this movie is the way these various obligations are made to snake around each other, then abruptly thrust inward to threaten and destroy. Unfortunately, these serpentine strands also cause a great deal of confusion and hob ble the movie just when it should be moving briskly...
...most serious thing about the entire piece was the lofty label that was pinned on it. Tommy was just strong rock 'n' roll, sometimes raunchy, sometimes highfalutin. The Who even wound up performing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, an appearance that was less an honor than a shrewd piece of promotion. Tommy has not only endured since then; it has flourished...
Hungary's Communist Chief János Kádr had just begun the keynote speech at the party congress in Budapest last week when he turned to the guest of honor and expressed his "sincere thanks" for the Soviet Union's "readiness to help" Hungary in its serious economic plight. It was an ironic gesture. Kádár was expressing gratitude to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev for extending a loan of perhaps $40 million that Hungary urgently needs-to meet the newly increased price of Soviet...
Brel writes bombastic ballads about love and loss and even larger issues, such as old age, war and redemption. Brel is not modest, and neither are the people who honor him here. The songs have lots of volume but no energy or pith. The film's notion of mise en scène is to have one number-about sons-staged in front of a trio of crosses from which dangle three uncomfortable youths...
...suppose that such secrets can be kept for a time, but in our society they cannot be kept forever. These are agencies that find their honor in the way they uphold the law. Nothing is more ruinous to them than actions that violate the very law they are entrusted to enforce. If the laws are not constructed in such a way as to confine our police and intelligence agencies to their legitimate work, then the days are numbered for freedom in this country. I am very much opposed to the Government's constantly looking over every citizen...