Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...additions to the plot, the pace of the movie slows down to a lugubrious, ponderous crawl. Here, Costa-Gavras has unwisely strayed from his style. His specialty is the fast-paced, linear form, where events are linked together in some exciting sequence and the movie moves forward by inertia. In Z, first the lingering fate of the seriously injured central figure, then the unexpected slant taken by the prosecutor kept the excitement up. Here, the tension dies long before the prisoners do. And the irony, predictably, becomes heavy-handed. The Latin motto "Justitia", inscribed in mosaic on the floor...
...deeply touched. Standing with a blanket wrapped around him after his early morning workout, Rocky is a tired boxer, but also a sick old man or a proud Indian chief. Stallone takes each scene as if it were a long, hard blow and then slowly arises, overcoming the inertia of years of failure...
Leonard Michaels's task is not so difficult. Writing for a minute market--liberal intellectuals, largely Eastern--he can begin each of his perhaps fifty stories with a literary world presupposed. Marx, Freud, Byron, a Jewish boyhood (familiar to gentile literati from reading Mailer and Roth), and the inertia of the 1950s all loom in the book's background, the author only has to select which allusions to use for each story's point of departure...
...came partly, I suppose, because it was Harvard," Ebert explained yesterday. "But the major reason that I came was that while I felt that there was a lot of inertia at Harvard, and that it would never change very rapidly, I felt that it wasn't afraid of change--much less so than other institutions...
...each case the challenges were at least partially neutralized, usually by a combination of reform and inertia--with reform kept within the limits of final senior faculty control of the departments...