Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often casually appointed and thus easily shelved or forgotten. In arousing hopes that they often cannot fulfill, they contribute to a further erosion of confidence in democratic institutions at a time when they are already facing sustained criticism. After serving on the Violence Commission, U.S. District Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. urged a moratorium on all commissions to solve social problems. There had been too much study, he complained, and too little action. Of course, if the President were to act on this advice, he would probably start by appointing a brand-new commission to study the feasibility of abolishing...
...would call them Topaz. It would seem difficult to make a zombie from Leon Uris' tense bestseller, based on diplomatic crescendos leading up to the Cuban missile crisis. Yet Alfred Hitchcock has done so without any discernible effort, spiritlessly following the events to their evitable inconclusion...
...work, but still it stands as a monument to the vision, brilliance and sheer force of America's greatest working director. Hitchcock's visual narrative and moral stance dominate the picture from first shot to last-so much so, that one is oblivious to plot inanities inherited from the Leon Uris novel and the largely clodlike performances of the cast (Michacl Piccoli, Philippe Noirct and Rocoe Lee Browne excluded...