Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is more reform-minded. These are dedicated, intelligent Russian nationalists who believe that a policy of hostility to the U.S. and confrontation abroad may have become counterproductive: they worry whether the Soviet economy can support such egregious imperialism. I think it is worth a gamble to support those latter elements, because every meaningful reform entails a certain degree of democratization, which would be good for the Soviet people as well as the rest of the world...
...becomes the toast of all Europe. When Svengali dies, so does Trilby's voice. In a two-hour, made-for-television movie titled Svengali, Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone), 19, plays a rock 'n' roll Trilby smoothed into a Streisand by Peter OToole's latter-day Svengali. Foster is on leave this semester from Yale, where she is a sophomore majoring in literature. Has she been doing her homework? Not much, it seems. "I have a copy of Trilby" Foster says, "but I haven't even read...
...action shifts chaotically between two years, 1955 and 1975. In the earlier year Giant is shot near by, after which one of its stars, James Dean, dies in a car crash; in the latter the Disciples of James Dean, a group of local fans, are holding a 20th reunion. Mona (Sandy Dennis) and Sissy (Cher) are still clerking in Woolworth's, and Joanne (Karen Black), who had also worked there, returns to stir up old emotions...
...special guest appearance of the FBI's anonymous hate-letter department, a division that just doesn't seem to make it into prime time. The camera would pan across an office, and focus in an William C. Sullivan, hand of civil rights investigations for the FBI, busily penning a latter. The camera then peers ever his shoulder at the words as he writes them...
...latter-day Wagner gallantly reaching for the 20th century's Gesamtkunstwerk (all-embracing work of art). But he fell far short. Given the present-day disinclination of opera houses to produce untried, experimental and expensive new works, as well as a changing musical aesthetic that now looks upon serialism merely as a compositional tool and not an end in itself, it is unlikely that Die Soldaten will spawn any successors. -By Michael Walsh