Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holds the film together though. Its best moment, in my mind, occurs as Minnelli and York kiss and begin to make love while the camera threatens to fade into the phoney discreteness of a rain-soaked window. Suddenly, the rain becomes the smokey white light of the cabaret and Miss Minnelli's head returns to view as she begins to sing "Maybe This Time," a lovely Judy Garland type song that meshes perfectly with the previous scene. In achieving a balanced counterpoint between movie "reality" and movie "artifice," Cabaret saves itself from the cloying theatricality that mars most movie musicals...
...full for the first time a week ago Monday. It was one long series of little cringettes. I would have liked to correct so much. You remember what was going on in your mind and all around you at the moment of each take. Then, at the screening, you miss things you worked so hard on it's sheer torture...
...Jackson, Miss...
...Notwithstanding Senator Margaret Chase Smith's proposed constitutional amendment to expel Senators who miss more than 40% of the Senate's votes [March 6], I think a simpler, more effective solution would be to dock the $42,500 salary of any errant Senator on a graduated scale. The more votes he missed, the more he would be docked. At least it might give some of us harried taxpayers struggling with our 1040s a bit of satisfaction and perhaps remind some of those political princes of the good old American tradition of no work...
...events? "At most, one," is the generous guess. Indeed, a single incident is the work's focus: the gang rape of a young Englishwoman, Daphne Manners, who is attacked by Indians in the Bibighar Gardens in Mayapore in 1942. The wrong men are arrested, including Hari Kumar, Miss Manners' lover, a displaced and dispossessed youth whose brown face makes him invisible to English society, but whose English public school education and accent set him apart from the Indian culture. To the colonial English, Kumar's association with Daphne Manners is intolerable; it is especially painful...