Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEWITT: The most. McCabe, Long Goodbye, and Nashville are three of the best movies I've ever seen. He brings out the inner beauty in actors, gets them to be collaborators...
...events. This ground-level view is contrived at first--for instance, the actors are awkward and reckless with their guns, and they talk a little like displaced New Yorkers--but the emotional strength of the story wins the audience. Robert DeNiro carries the movie with the intensity of that inner distance he has copyrighted, and the supporting cast crystallizes and meshes perfectly around him. In the end, it doesn't matter that this film refuses to deal with Vietnam, because small-town America has refused, too. The Deer Hunter is nothing if not true to the values of small town...
...trekking to Winnipeg is the sheer fun−or, as one scientist says, "the orgasmic experience"−of eclipse watching. But the scientists do follow in a distinguished tradition. It was during an eclipse in 1761 that scientists discovered the dense atmosphere of Venus; at such times the inner planet is higher in the sky, letting astronomers see it through less of the earth's atmosphere. Helium was found in the sun during an 1868 eclipse. And in 1919, British scientists measured the bending of starlight by solar gravity, thus providing dramatic proof of Einstein's general theory...
...Some of Playboy's competitors now feature warts-and-all snapshots, usually taken by husband or boyfriend, sent in by women eager to memorialize their assets. "To each his own," says Chan. "We're not gynecological photographers at Playboy. All we're shooting is physical beauty. Inner beauty doesn't come out until after about...
...files. It is arbitrary, just as it is arbitrary that when Red rides out of town in his new car, he comes back for the fat waitress whom he's treated with contempt throughout the film. The movie turns from sadistic to sappy within minutes; the plot has no inner logic...