Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Does not believe U.S. should apologize to Iran. Favors patient negotiation...
...kept his own will in check, he doubted a system that "constantly organized and marshaled [the young ones] this way and that." In his 1951 spiritual treatise, The Ascent to Truth, Merton had ingenuously defended the churchmen who silenced Galileo, and he had counseled other pioneers to be patient with ecclesiastical censors. Now he sharply questioned such blind obedience...
...could do so without risking a major confrontation with the U.S. Nonetheless, U.S. intelligence has uncovered no evidence that the Soviets are directly fanning the fighting on the Iranian side by infiltrating arms. The Kremlin, in short, seems to be behaving like a well-heeled but very cautious, very patient gambler?placing bets all over the table, but only ones that it can afford to lose...
...ANOTHER LEVEL, it raises the question of "Film vs. Freud," whether therapy should be the subject matter of movies. Well, it's dangerous: remember Interiors? Whether or not, in these matters, the patient should minister to himself, it's certainly better for art when he does. Watching most psychotherapy in action is not all that different from watching a colostomy, or any other doctor-work; among other things, it makes for lousy dialogue, and Ordinary People is full of it, endless psychobabbled colloquys between Conrad and his psychiatrist (Jewish, of course) who smokes cigarettes, drinks bottomless cups of coffee, wears...
With each year Walter Matthau looks more and more like an affable bloodhound. His cheeks seem to grow pouchier, his eyes more sadly knowing, his manner ever more wisely patient. To his basic screen self this great comedian of calm has added, in Hopscotch, a nicely distracted air: he moves through the picture humming bits of Mozart and even, at times, conducting an imaginary orchestra...