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THROUGH SALLY'S ORDEAL, we focus our attention upon the endless obstacle course that prevents her assimilation into society. The perpetuation of her role as a member of a deprived working class and the temptation of crime in order to survive are just a part of the stacked deck that she faces upon her release from prison. None of these issues are ever resolved. Nor should they be. In a straight-line narrative feature, questions are raised and answered within the course of the film; what makes Dozens unique is a marked sense of open-endedness. Certainly, Sally's portrayal...
Garbanevskaya, a poet, was a founder of the underground journal "Chronicle of Current Events," which is still published in Russia. In 1968 she was arrested for demonstrating in Red Square against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia and was later placed in a psychiatric institution--a familiar ordeal for a Soviet dissident. After her release, Garbanevskaya emmigrated to Paris, where she is now the editor-in-chief of "Memory," a Russian literary journal...
...many addicts, the time spent at the TC is well worth enduring. It is trying, both morally and physically; the work is difficult. Withdrawal from drug use is a painful process, and many are tempted to quit before completing the ordeal. The sacrifices are numerous. One resident regards his shaved head as a sign of "sincerity to the program." Another speaks of sessions, often several days, spent in the school boiler room, where residents "go voluntarily to think their problems through." "Certainly the discipline is here, but it is just one part of teaching these people how to confront their...
...degree-murder trial. We shared one common feeling when the trial was over; we had done what we had to do, not what we wanted to do. Those six days were among the most difficult and exhausting of my life. It was an "irksome, boring, vital, rewarding" and sobering ordeal...
...other. They are wary. Jerry Ford may have transcended this kind of calculation, and was a true friend of France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Canada's Pierre Trudeau. Honest and decent, Ford was special in his time, spared through Watergate the terrible ordeal of climbing to power and so spared the rituals of political calculation that can twist a man's nature...