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Dreyer creates an original and visually satisfying style, but to serve what purpose? As in all his films, the moods that are developed are all-important. Beneath the mood-evoking surface dialogue and action, the real emotions play themselves out, giving the film a kinship with Rohmer's My Night at Maud's. The ideas that pervade Gertrud number among Dreyer's characteristic preoccupations. What is the power of love? What part should love play in a person's life? In contrast to his other films, Gertrud does not raise these questions in a religious context. A brief scene...
...into a multimillion-dollar corporation, and made many of its stars rich. Gaye, for example, started out in 1961 as a Johnny Mathis-type balladeer with a silvery tenor voice and by 1967 had become Motown's No. 1 purveyor of black soul. Neither that success nor his kinship with God has given Gaye a notably pious manner. A gangly, soft-spoken man of 32 with neatly trimmed beard and mustache, he has the easy, confident manner of a big-name athlete -which perhaps explains why he was able to spend a week last summer scrimmaging with Eastern Michigan...
...when the Japanese had seized Singapore and stripped the country of its British defense shield. Australia's late Prime Minister John Curtin at that time declared that his country would henceforth look to the U.S. for its security, "free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship" with Britain. Today the U.S. is engaged in extricating itself from Indochina and is unlikely to make new commitments in Southeast Asia for a long time. Yet the Soviet Union, China and Japan are increasing their influence in the oceans that bound Australia. Clearly, the Australians are being challenged...
...areas, the increasingly common and frequent corporate transfer, the convenience of the automobile and the highway system built to accommodate it?all have contributed to a basic change in the character of the family. In the less complicated, less urbanized days, the average U.S. family was an "extended" or "kinship" family. This meant simply that the parents and their children were surrounded by relatives: in-laws, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins. If the relatives did not live within the same household, they were next door or down the block or on the next farm. But as Americans became more...
...destiny. The characters he propelled through it were both its living parts and the fuel it consumed. Their hugeness, their stylization, their compulsive verbalizing are all in part a response to the pressures the city exerts on them. This, as Critic V.S. Pritchett has pointed out, is the kinship that urbanized modern readers have with them: a dependence on the "private, mythmaking faculty" by which people dramatize their existence in a mass society. It is a kinship with Dickens as well. In the 1970s more than ever, the feeling he once voiced in a letter seems hauntingly familiar...