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Director Nichols moves his camera with academic predictability. His actors do not inhabit his shots; they pose in them, as if pressed under glass. When Scott worries to his colleagues that unknown foes are "sneaking up on us," Nichols cuts to a shot of a small boat coming ashore at night, underscored by a suitably melodramatic flourish of music. Nichols, whose reputation rests partly on his supposedly sensitive work with actors, here leaves his cast at loose ends...
...diverse group of leftist candidates united in support of an initiative to split Berkeley's police force into three community-controlled segments--one for student residential areas, one for black residential areas, and one for the areas dominated by the white, non-student and generally professional people who inhabit most of the rest of the city...
Egypt and Israel are both Semitic nations, both inhabit the same small area of the world and face similar geographic and sociological problems. Why can't the enmity be resolved...
...going to "save this fucking country" but whose putative benevolence doesn't keep him from keeping their deposit) seem to be best, but this may be just because they have the best parts. John Pasquin directs well, and William F. Matthews' set looks as though Weller's people could inhabit it. The second act has a couple of short dull stretches -- a series of jokes about relevance that don't seem awfully relevant any more, and a brief appearance by Bob's uncle to let Bob know his mother is dying -- and every once in a while the comedy seems...
Neruda would have scorned such special treatment, as he scorned all the actions of the people one of his poems denounced, with passion and accuracy, as the dictatorship of the flies. Neruda never claimed to inhabit a special world for poets divorced from the struggles and the suffering of ordinary people. The son of a railway worker killed in a fall from his train, Neruda lost the consulship accorded his early poems by declaring Chile opposed to facism in Spain without waiting for his government's instructions. In 1944, the nitrate miners of Antofagasta asked Neruda...