Word: mising
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...looking movie with only three main characters-a chamber piece played in a Crystal Palace that shivers in the soft focus of sexual ambiguity. As director, Streisand has seen to it that Yentl and Avigdor and Hadass don't get lost in the sumptuous locations and somber, classical mise en scene. Patinkin has harnessed his talent and energy; he can bounce off a bookcase in the thrall of scholarship, or sit tense and still as Avigdor tries to figure out the riddle of Anshel's identity. Amy Irving, of the honeyed voice and witchcrafty allure, makes the role...
There were reports of a neat compro mise: Volcker would be reappointed to a four-year term with the understanding that he would step down in January 1985. That would allow whoever is President to name his own man to the Federal Reserve at the beginning of his term. In the past, Volcker himself has said that he believes the two most important jobs in Washington should have concurrent terms...
...most "message" movies, the true ideological enemy is nuance. Plot is reduced to polemic; characters become walking placards of good or evil; emotional shading is obscured by stolid or hammy acting; the mise en scène angles each shot like a schoolroom pointer. Moonlighting undercuts the genre's stylistic totalitarianism with deadpan comedy, and reveals its message through vignettes, moods, gestures, faces. Jeremy Irons' dour, handsome face suggests the first strokes of a political cartoon from an East European underground newspaper. Nowak is the story's narrator, its star and its sensibility, and Skolimowski challenges...
...Bavaria: neon pinks and oranges in the toilets, navy blue seats against a sick-yellow wall, clashing as grotesquely as the local big shots do against the righteous Von Bohm. Their avarice is petty bourgeois, the stuff of small-town scandals in any country, but Fassbinder's mise en scene suggests that the subject, as well as the style, is Early Hitler...
...September, when the Administration was about to submit the sale formally, many legislators were openly insisting that they would never vote yes unless there were some sort of joint-control arrangement for the AW ACS planes. With Reagan's permission, Allen joined the group effort to negotiate a compro mise. His efforts aroused the ire of Haig, who felt that Allen was usurping a State Department role. In any case, it failed when word of the attempt leaked, all but forcing the proud Saudis to say no. Reagan was left with no way to win approval, ex cept to plead...