Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substance of my review, however, directly opposes Miss Kael's position on the film. Cassavetes dramatizes a pathogenic situation which only Laing and Gregory Bateson have sought to popularize it would be difficult to ignore the fact that A Woman Under the Influence is based on those theorists' work, if not an exegesis of it. Also, many observers--including Miss Kael, to whom I was referring--have compared Cassavetes to Pinter...
...highway with high-energy music playing behind, as though you're supposed to groove to the film instead of watching it. But the rest of Alice's journey from domination and fear to non-sexist union is much better. Scorsese has a great sense of how people miss each other's intentions, of how conflicts--and even the most brutal emotional cruelty--is often no one's fault. It takes the most indefatigable kind of strength--like what grows into Alice--to do something about this. All filmed in the instant consumer glare of Tucson, Phoenix, Johnny Carson and potato...
While the year-rounders like David, Sandy, Pete, Jimmy and Louise miss a great deal--they are shut off from the outside world and are plagued by a seasonal economy--they also gain something by their stubborn refusal to leave. They remain in touch with the changing sea and the moody weather of the Outer Cape, closer to nature than the city-dweller. There is time for reflection and thought, for walking and reading, for watching the spring finally appear...
...manufactured by a Victorian theatrical melodramatist and if Chabrol's plot reminds us of antique theatrical forms, so do his characters. They seem to exist mainly to demonstrate how - caught up in our own pre occupations and bemused by the ambiguities and polite deceptions of modern behavior - we miss the moral struggles going on around...
Some goalies steep themselves in humiliation for hours when they miss a shot. Glenn Hall once said: "Having a goal scored against you is like getting your pants taken down in front of 15,000 people." Though Parent is not exactly light-hearted about giving up goals, he can take some with a grin. In a game against Buffalo last year, Sabre Left Winger Rick Martin sent a hard shot screaming over Parent's shoulder into the net. When Bobby Clarke skated by the Flyer goalie to encourage him, he heard Parent laughing and saying behind his mask...