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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film makes extensive use of John's "home movies," most of which were made by professionals. These offer a pleasant glimpse into John's househusband years that seems to refute the allegations in Albert Goldman's scurrilous new biography that John was less than a devoted father to Sean, or that he was anorexic, stoned or unhappy during those years. But the film fails to convince because it glosses over this period, just as it glosses over much of John's life in its headlong rush to condense all that John was into 90 minutes...
Central to the movie should be his music, but the filmmakers treat it with haphazard indifference. The song selection is bafflingly random, omitting seminal and important songs like "I Am the Walrus" or "Instant Karma" and including less noteworthy and more obscure titles like "How" and "Love." All the songs, even "Imagine" itself, are abbreviated, with the curious exception of "Twist and Shout," which Lennon didn't compose. Beatles producer George Martin, who expertly handled sound-mixing chores on virtually all the band's recordings and soundtracks over the last 25 years, should be strung...
...presentation. Rumania was represented by Silivas, 18, a charismatic performer with an instinct for selling her quick, precise routines to the audience. Coming into the final rotation, the vault, Silivas held a slight edge. Although vault is her weakest event, she held tough to the last, scoring 9.95. Nothing less than a perfect 10 would deprive her of the gold. But Shushunova had already scored two 10s in the event in the team rounds. She knew what was needed -- and with little fanfare, she delivered. Even before the scoreboard flashed the 10, the intent Shushunova permitted the first hint...
Politics and technicalities overruled performances in the team bronze-medal confrontation between the American and East German women. The U.S. team was not expected to be a contender. But the Americans came on strong during the compulsory round, finishing less than half a point behind the East Germans. What happened next will nag at Americans in Games to come, much the way that sports fans still pick at the scab that remains from a 1972 wound, when the U.S. basketball team lost the gold to the Soviets in a disputed final few seconds of play...
...practice there are distinctions. If the Gentile spouse converts to Judaism, as happens 30% of the time, the union is treated as one between Jews; requirements for conversion are toughest among the Orthodox. In addition, Reform and Conservative congregations welcome unconverted Gentile spouses into temple life; Orthodox synagogues are less accommodating. And while the Reform rabbinical conference in 1973 formally denounced the participation of rabbis in mixed-marriage ceremonies, rabbis in the most liberal of Judaism's major branches generally do as they please. Reform Rabbi Irwin Fishbein of Westfield, N.J., last year printed a national directory of 200 members...