Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reveals the reason why Le Carre makes all his alleged competitors -- the Ludlums, the Clancys, the Trevanians, even the Deightons -- look like knuckle-typers. Palfrey is describing a failure, an intricate scheme that collapses somewhere along the tortuous road plotted for its success. The world will not be saved, love will not triumph, and tomorrow will dawn with the same grimy sense of indeterminate morals and motives as yesterday. This much is certain. What remains to be discovered is the marvelously engrossing way in which everything can go wrong...
...RAINBOW. Twenty years after cinematizing Women in Love, Ken Russell returns to the questing eroticism of D.H. Lawrence. Given a story worth telling and a heroine (Sammi Davis) worth caring about, Russell can still direct with passion and poise...
...Spielberg's idea to cast Connery, a decision that illuminated the film and its filming. "When Sean and Harrison arrived on the set," Spielberg recalls, "everyone got quiet and respectful. The two are like royalty -- not the royalty you fear because they can tax you, but the royalty you love because they will make your lives better...
Ford thinks the way Bogie talked, and he takes an old-fashioned movie star's pleasure in the craft of filmmaking. "I love to work," he says. "I like doing something difficult and complicated. It's like setting yourself in a maze and learning the maze so you always come out in the right place at the right time. I'm a technical actor. For me, acting is part intellectual, part mechanical. It's being in control of your mind and body at the same time. The emotions you show may be spontaneous, but the bricks have to be carefully...
...Black Greeks feel that our organizations were all born for a common purpose: to further the cause and contribute to the struggle for Black equality; to spread brotherly and sisterly love; and to uplift our brothers and sisters not as fortunate as ourselves. We have succeeded in all of these respects for many years. If it were not for Black Greek organizations, much that has needed to be done in our Black communities would have gone undone. However, the fact that we do not glorify and laud our own accomplishments has hurt us. The fact that we do not speak...