Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PAOLO AND VITTORIO TAVIANI'S The Night of the Shooting Stars has all the qualities of a wonderful folktale--at once pungently earthy and dreamily fantastic. It unfolds to the leisurely rhythms of its own peculiar inner life and logic. It's a magical film, where the horrors of war, the crude beauty and humor of everyday existence, and the wonder of childhood all intersect in a flash of dream and memory...
Nonetheless in The Voice of Poor the analysis incomplete and the logic unconvincing. While easy to ready it will hardly inspire many to the half hearted rallying cry of its conclusion "books can point the way things happen when readers join the march...
...thirsting for general knowledge, should be turned away. Clearly, the need for a consistent policy will become more urgent as the Core grows. Upperclassmen are quick to recognize that exiling freshmen is the only sensible solution, but roughly one fourth of Harvard undergraduates are curiously blind to this crystal logic. True gamblers, these freshmen prefer to go for broke with a random lottery. Both systems have some merit, and we advocate the oft-sought happy medium--a random lottery weighted for seniority for all oversubscribed courses...
...show played for four years to packed houses, first in London, then in New York. When it ended, Moore and Cook went on to do a television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their zany version of the Faust legend. Their style was blithe, bizarre humor that turned logic upside down. In Bedazzled, for instance, they invented an order of leaping nuns who would jump on trampolines to get closer to God. In their knockabout revue Good Evening, which ran almost continuously for five years, they constructed an imaginary restaurant buried deep in the Yorkshire moors. It was called...
Paul Zimmerman's script is full of that kind of fine, mad logic, and Scorsese's edgy style, nervous and bright, fits the subject perfectly. By the time Rupert kidnaps Jerry, demanding air time for his monologue, and making everyone believe that death is his downside, the movie is irresistible, though a crude coda, which makes explicit the social criticism long since implied, is eminently resistible. But if it blunts it cannot spoil a film that will itch on the memory...