Word: passeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barbra Streisand may be the only female star in films with the box-office power to do almost anything she wants. That being so, it passeth all understanding why she would want to star in and produce (with her housemate, the distinguished hair stylist Jon Peters) anything as misbegotten as The Main Event...
...everyone he meets, never steals apples from the fruit stand and is respected by the locals. Even when he is responsible for the death of both sons of a woman he has known for decades, her admiration for him remains unsullied. He is, in short, the peace officer who passeth all understanding. So does his show...
...Executive distracted from the pursuit of the war by a wife (Sada Thompson) far gone in status panic-running up huge bills, insulting society ladies, publicly accusing her husband of infidelity, even being investigated for disloyalty by a congressional committee. Lincoln's nobility in the face of this passeth all understanding, despite a canny, understated performance by Hal Holbrook...
...rulers of old Jerusalem, who have essayed the rule making only because the churches, which jealously share jurisdiction over the Christian holy places, are so touchy about privilege and eminence that an impartial arbitrator is required to solve their disputes. So much for the peace that passeth understanding in Jerusalem, the golden city that has witnessed 20 centuries of conflict between the zealots of the Almighty...