Word: interplays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musical reviews. They require little scenery, characterization, or preparation. Singers like them because they offer solos enough even for the less-talented voices. Directors like them because they're easily transformed by adding and deleting numbers. Lazy audiences like them because there's no plot to follow, no psychological interplay to understand--only a leisurely ramble down musical garden-paths, on which the weary can close their eyes for intermittent stretches of time without missing much...
...best thing about Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson's choppy, overstated and confusing script is its interplay of satire and serious drama. They balance the two perfectly, switching, for instance, from a frenzied scuffle between courtroom guards and one of Kirkland's clients, to a bitter confrontation in the courthouse hall with a disdainful and cruel judge...
Bova conveys his message entertainingly. His writing is competent, if not spectacular, and while the "futuristic technology" involved--killer satellites (gasp!) and moon bases--is old hat to science fiction fans, the interplay between science and politics and the bitter metamorphosis of Chester Arthur Kinsman should keep readers interested...
...soldiers assigned to two garrisons under the command of a Soviet army colonel. The unit was equipped with 40 tanks, 60 armored personnel carriers and other military hardware. Said an official: "It is clear that the brigade is not there to train Cubans. There is no substantial interplay with Cubans. If it were really a training unit, it was training itself." Though the brigade's purpose remains unclear, the unit does provide a degree of protection for the island while Cubans are busy elsewhere. There are now some 35,000 Cuban troops, technicians and civilian advisers in Africa...
...explores with intelligence and subtlety the vagaries of human desire. With neither snickers nor excessive sentiment Serreau unfolds the relationship between two men and a woman. The homosexual bond between Louis and Fernand is accorded the same frankness and sensitivity as the heterosexual union with Alexa. The erotic interplay between the two men lays to rest the hoary cinematic cliche that the sight of two men kissing repulses women. Serreau's skill as director and Jean--Francois Robin's delicate photography present the embrace with a warm dignity...