Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIXER. John Frankenheimer has directed this adaptation of Bernard Malamud's novel with care and dedication. Alan Bates (as the accidental hero). Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm all seem perfect in their difficult roles...
After that, the interview itself was perhaps the easiest part of the bureau's work on the cover. Thieu's English is not perfect, but he is a pleasure for a reporter to work with, says Clark. "He is clear, direct, candid and alert." Other sources were not always so cooperative, or so close at hand...
...liberal. John Bunzel, a liberal political scientist at San Francisco State College, has been repeatedly shouted down in class; his two cars have been smeared with paint and their tires slashed; a bomb was placed outside his office. An S.D.S. student told him why: "You are a perfect symbol. You are over 40, you are white, and you have a doctor of philosophy degree. You are visible, in that you speak your mind in public. You are committed to reason. Your arguments are always rational and organized, but most of all you are a liberal. You represent liberal values...
...Gloria to hold up and put down, and she delightedly pounces on a waifish little girl somebody brought, with so much hair, she explains, "it was impossible to see its face without trespassing." The fact that the waif died of drug withdrawal the next day is merely the perfect capper for Gloria's account of the evening...
...visual style of Rappaccini thus synthesizes personal emotions, personal development, plot, and thematic development into a single drama. It's the perfect way to put Hawthorne's romance into film. This type of romance, designed to describe personal development through emotional (above all, love) experience, requires its characters' sentiments to seem real and strong so that their actions will feel sufficiently motivated. Edelstein establishes the objectivity, indeed the rule, of his characters' emotional experience. Their actions are completely determined by their emotions, and since these emotions form the world of his film, the entire drama proceeds with a chilling inevitability...