Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casual voter or party worker. Despite his impressive accomplishments--lobbying for federal aid to the city, lowering the state income tax and eliminating a billion-dollar budget deficit--Carey projects coldness, aloofness, insensitivity. Aside from occasional forays back to the wilds of forgotten Brooklyn, where he doesn't mind stumping amidst a sea of pug noses and red hair, the governor hasn't been able to charm all those blue-collar and ethnic voters who grew up voting Democratic but wouldn't mind breaking the habit. Given the chance to vote for Duryea--a moderate conservative, almost a city dweller...
...rich guy, who gets killed, and the great French detective goes through the suspects one by one trying to figure out which one did it, and it turns out it wasn't just one who did it, it was all of them. Remember? Well, keep that basic structure in mind and change some of the details and you've got the latest Agatha Christie movie, Death on the Nile, an enjoyable if formulaic story set on a cruise down the lush, life-giving Nile River...
...matter of getting into primitive fancy dress: all the painters involved were 20th century city dwellers, they had read Freud and Jung, some of them (notably Pollock) had been in analysis, and they were well aware that the "savage mind" cannot be mimicked by an act of will. The only form of primitivism available to modern man, their paintings argue in different voices, is the unconscious. Just as the young bourgeois intellectuals who formed surrealism turned their revolt against their own class into something like a religious principle, so the New York painters declared their separation from American materialism...
...viewer whose mind has begun to stray in this direction reflects that the English title, also, is a bit too mellifluous and easy and that the exquisite photography of interior scenes framed and lit like Vermeer's paintings shows little more than professionalism. The result, though the film is by no means unsuccessful as a whole, is that the actors tremble more than the audience. Passionate gloom haunted Bergman's earlier works, but professional gloom is what is visible in Autumn Sonata...
...Gomes's reaction when he happened to walk past the headquarters one day and saw our signs proves that there is substance to that nice guy image. He accepted our nomination on the spot. We knew he wouldn't mind being pope" Flynn added...