Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instance, it was first decided that Brzezinski, not Vance, should fly over to try personally to bolster the Shah, a mission Brzezinski eagerly pushed. At the last moment, Carter was talked out of the plan, finally agreeing that it was too risky. Brzezinski was just as anxious to journey to Moscow when the SALT II negotiations stalled. "These State Department guys are too soft," he told one of his associates. "I can make the Soviets sit up and listen...
...might have had a premonition about Jimmy Carter's descent on the Father of Waters last week. From the averted faces and cold shoulders of the poll readers in Washington, the President escaped by steamboat to the smiles and welcomes of Middle America. His seven-day, 660-mile journey from St. Paul to St. Louis was a vacation both officially and in the sense that many politicians find campaigning a vacation from the cares of the office. Unmistakably, Carter was campaigning for reelection...
...severed heads that lie strewn about his domain. Nor do we know why Willard, a sudden convert to Kurtz's undefined cause, goes ahead and kills him. By withholding this information, Coppola gives up his final chance to confront the issues his film initially intended to explore. The journey into America's Viet Nam madness-not to mention the journey into Willard's and Kurtz's souls-reaches its dead end in a quagmire of freshman English class recitations...
...ending fails not only intellectually but also as plain theater. Like the apocalyptic space journey in Kubrick's very similarly structured 2001: A Space Odyssey, Willard's journey is designed as a psychedelic trip. Each stop along the way is meant to be more phantasmagoric than the last. In 2001, Kubrick successfully escalated his film at each stage, even topping the seemingly unbeatable light show with a more bizarre finale. Coppola, while creating progressively weirder war scenes, runs dry before he reaches his crucial imaginative leap: Kurtz's fastidiously designed compound looks as tame...
...direction of Robert Kalfin and Lynne Gannaway smoothly accomplishes the transitional journey between one alien culture and another and knits both to gether in binding humanity. In his years as Chelsea's artistic director, Kalfin has been a dramatic risk taker of taste. Never has it been more rewarding to share that risk...