Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oscars come a lot easier than Nobel Prizes, so don't be misled when the little statues make their rounds on Academy Awards night. Carlo Ponti's production of David Lean's film of Boris Pasternak's novel should be avoided at all costs...
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Before and after the Russian Revolution, lovers move through a many-splendored landscape in David Lean's version of Pasternak's classic. Omar Sharif is Zhivago, Julie Christie his Lara...
...absurdists have heeded the admonition of their existential idol Kierkegaard, who wrote: "The comic spirit is not wild or vehement, its laughter is not shrill." Black humor has a long tradition that reached its apex in Jonathan Swift. But the humorists who dwell on death and disaster today lean too often toward the narcissistic, reflecting images of themselves as helpless heroes in a world they can neither take nor leave. Their less lugubrious colleagues, on the other hand, have been all too willing to cede the comic to the journalists and to allow the commercial to override the classic...
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie head an exceptional cast in Director David Lean's literate, thoroughly romantic evocation of life and love in Russia a half-century...
...lean, well-written memoir-some of which echoes material in The Learning Tree-Parks describes how often he came within an eyelash of choosing violence and raw, corrosive hatred as his weapons in the struggle for dignity. After a fight with three white toughs in St. Paul, Minn.-a battle that left him with a dozen scars from getting pitched through a plate-glass storefront-he reflected how the white man's brutality "was nudging me into a hatred of him." After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white...