Word: lively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital and almost a member of the Nixon team, Dr. John Knowles is featured on "The Right to Live," an examination of Medicare and Medicaid...
Nevertheless, there are value judgements in this film. Agnes Varda is for love, good, and light, ambivalent about game playing, and against cynicism. Above all, I think, she believes in the ultimate endurance of live within the human spirit as a redeeming value, a force which transcends isolated relationships and permits us to continue to live...
THEN, THERE was also the phenomenon--surely not considered by the Houston crews and the television networks--that in most respects imagination has already pre-empted actuality. The first live views of the moon looked suspiciously like the bits of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 that ended up on the cutting room floor. So, for most of the Huck Finns of this generation, it was quite easy to say "We've been there before...
Meanwhile, of course, he continues to live in a manner that would be impossible if it weren't for his parents' sellout, hypocritical, establishment, plastic lives. At the risk of sounding like the Midwestern Methodist I am, every single action of Benjamin Braddock's is that of a spoiled rotten (albeit sensitive, self-deprecating, gentle, all the things you learn to value in a place like Harvard) brat. Not a brat in the old sense of the word, of course, not the overtly selfish sort who demands things and his own way, but the breed that seems to flourish particularly...
...other hand, is pushing middle age. His wife is a bitch, his son is well on the way toward becoming one of those uppermiddle class brats, and his dog really does growl at him -- on the phone, yet. Twelve years he's been married; twelve years of his live shot to hell. That's why Jack Lemmon is able to make Brubaker so much worthier an object of sympathy (or empathy, depending on your age group) than Benjamin. Braddock stumbles through situations picking up the emotional cost with a sort or moral charge plate...