Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trademarks. Politically, Honecker, now 58, is, if anything, even more doctrinaire and rigid than Ulbricht. "Honecker is a stubborn dogmatist," says Werner Baum, a former East German official who defected two years ago. The years of solitary confinement left their mark on Honecker, an obsessively neat man who wears heavy hornrimmed spectacles and is known as "Granite Face" among East Europeans. "If he were not so utterly dedicated to orthodoxy, one could say he was totally passionless," says one Communist diplomat. "He is fussy to the point of absurdity," reports another. Before his aides dust his desk, they make...
Making people laugh for the sake of laughing is easy. Sustaining it for an entire evening is a neat trick. Senelick and his cast perform it admirably. Welcome back, HARPO, it's good to see someone around here who doesn't take himself so seriously...
...film asks to be taken as a memory, the type of memory that has been tidied up and simplified by the ameliatory processes of time. Except that Summer of '42 goes too far along this line. It presents its memory as a cohesive, dramatic whole. It's too neat to be a memory...
...Chinese scroll. The Annamese mountain chain sloped and plunged from the Laotian border eastward into the tight flatiron plains that hugged the coast, generating white water rivers and misty waterfalls. Woodcutters prowled the thick jungle at will looking for hardwood cinnamon; hunters tracked boar and rabbit, and farmers tilled neat, geometric rice paddies in the rich lap of the foothills...
Bresson is trying to approach an unsentimentalized naturalism, and by making Balthazar the surface dramatic center, he frees himself from artificially forcing the lives of his human characters into neat dramatic confrontations. He wants to present life not as artistically ordered but life as stumbled upon-in all its formlessness. This would make for tedious watching if not for the figure of Balthazar who becomes a principle of coherence, a kind of unspeaking narrator...