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...that swamp our eyes and yank at our hearts. Cinematographer Gu Changwei has shot many of Chinese cinema's most imperial tours de force?Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from its complex script (by the novelist...
...older siblings. All three characters?played by first-time actors?hover between childhood and adulthood. The Gaos march to their own time, refusing?or just failing?to follow the prescribed paths toward maturity. Weihong struggles to break free of social norms, while her brothers just struggle. Peacock chronicles their thwarted attempts?some touching, some depraved?to take control of their own lives...
Last Week. If alive, the Lindbergh child became 22 months old last week. Col. Lindbergh made a two-day journey from his lonely estate. He was seen at Milford and Bridgeport, Conn. The "Jafsie" notes disappeared from the newspapers. The Norfolk triumvirate--Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock, John Hughes Curtis, Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. retired--continued their activity. Mr. Curtis effected his weekly disappearance in a naval plane; the Episcopal minister, not very successfully incognito as "H. Pearson," alighted from an airplane at Newark Airport and was reported in consultation with the child's parents. When they...
Shipwright, Preacher & Admiral, they were an incongruous assortment. Preacher Dobson-Peacock, often in Norfolk headlines, had a church in Mexico City when the late Dwight Whitney Morrow was Ambassador there. John Hughes Curtis, a builder of small boats, had had professional dealings with rum-runners. Admiral Burrage, who commanded the cruiser Memphis when it brought Col. Lindbergh triumphantly home from France five years ago, is noted for taciturnity and exactitude. His sailors, made to keep their socks up, used to cill...
...enlisted the aid of two fellow townsmen who knew the family. The triumvirate repeatedly maintained that they were dealing with a different group from the one which "Jafsie" Condon encountered. Cols. Lindbergh and Breckinridge appeared to put most faith in the "Jafsie" trail. With Mr. Curtis and Mr. Dobson-Peacock operating last week in the same area as Col. Lindbergh, there was inference that the two trails were beginning to converge...