Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheekbones and sulfurous dark eyes, suggesting a Faye Dunaway who does not yet know she is beautiful. She has the strength and solidity of a heroic sculpture-Maillol's Leda, perhaps-a peasant-goddess rooted in the earth. With this performance, Lange has passed from the status of minor curiosity as the heroine of Dino De Laurentiis' King Kong to that of respected actress and, maybe, star. Jack Nicholson thinks so: he calls her "the sex star...
...technique. Most of the sheets are very small, and the detail in some of them is carried out at an almost microscopic level-a difficult enough feat with "hard" tools like pen or silverpoint, but an impossible one (or so one would suppose) with red crayon. One of the minor technical mysteries surrounding Leonardo's work was how he made his chalk hard enough to hold a needle point when sharpened. The steadiness of his hand was almost inhuman-helped, no doubt, by the diet of fruit and water he was always recommending to others, and by his justified...
...ADAPTED SCREENPLAY especially triumphs in its portrayal of the relationship between Eva and her granddaughter Jeannie. Unlike Jeannie's minor role in Olsen's novella. Joyce Eliason and Alex Lytie, authors of the screenplay, developed the granddaughter's character fully, allowing her to unearth Eva's "other" personality: that of a casual, free-spirited, and highly intellectual woman. The authors successfully show the mutual infatuation of relationships that span generations...
...Time of Fire works best when it starts to break away from such stereotyped roles and speeches to show the feelings of the people caught between the symbols. Through minor characters and incidental lines Ward manages to give her play some needed depth. The eagerness of a 12-year-old soldier (Stephen Keeler) complements the world-weary cynicism of an old man (played with nice touches of irony by Jeremy Rabinovitz) and the equally cynical pilfering of a surly revolutionary soldier (Brad Blumenthal...
...thinks it will win, in El Salvador as well as in Congress. William Hyland, a Soviet-affairs specialist sympathetic to the Administration, notes that Brezhnev did not even mention El Salvador in his speech last week, and predicts: "They may let it go down the tubes. It was a minor gamble for them, and it's not paying off. They will always be able to blame the defeat of the Salvadoran Communists on Yankee imperialism." Still, Bushnell had the best one-word description of the Administration's course: "Risky...