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...docudrama's portrayal of Soviet life is unconvincing, especially after the flavorful re-creations in such recent films as Gorky Park and Moscow on the Hudson. Its aspirations to realism are frequently betrayed by melodramatics. KGB agents seem to lurk behind every door, like B-movie heavies. But when a witness at a political trial surreptitiously slips a sheaf of documents to Sakharov just before taking the stand, the action is miraculously unseen by any of the guards in the crowded courtroom...
...beat in Flashdance. Rock groups love its modish, high-tech tones, and jazzmen such as Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock have found its versatility irresistible. Laurie Anderson, the avant-garde performance artist, colored her United States, PartsI-IV with its plaintive, other-worldly resonance, and its dark bass notes lurk menacingly in the minimalist scores of Composer Philip Glass...
...MAJORITY cynically mourns not a lost life, but a lost opportunity to capitalize on the ensuing political confusion. Beyond this callousness, impressive for its own sake, lurk even more deeply disturbing political misconceptions...
...participate in the violence they have been watching for the past three hours and humiliate the enemy even more. And it is when The Game--or any other game--means more than the contest of skill and strategy it was designed to be that violence and ulterior motives lurk...
...situations but the characters in them who seize our imaginations; beneath everyday exteriors lurk haunting, explosive desires. Robert Taylor Jr.'s "Colorado" reminds us of the extraordinary, doomed needs of early adolescence...