Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Finishing School should thoroughly satisfy both of Godwin's constituencies. It is at once her most artful and accomplished novel and an old-fashioned, irresistible page turner. The plot, like that of A Mother and Two Daughters, is set in motion by the death of a father and the adjustments demanded of the women he protected. But this time Godwin has made things harder on the survivors, particularly a young daughter who must endure a brief but harrowing rite of passage toward maturity...
Parts of the movie succeed quite well in creating a mood of realism, in particular a "Southern California atmosphere." Motion and speed are used extensively, along with the obligatory car scenes, to frequently impart a very real sense of vibrancy. Unfortunately, this exciting aspect of the movie, somewhat reminiscent of a souped-up West Side Story, is shortchanged by the moralizing attempts...
Most of yesterday's women's hockey game looked like a slow-motion film--even the collisions seemed to take place at low speed...
Luckily for Harvard, that slow-motion movie had a happy ending...
...immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines...