Word: playing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huge gray screen whose cyclopean eye brims with historic film clips, who hurls the dramatic thunderbolts of the evening. In two scenes of mass turbulence, with banners flying and the crowd in a hypnotic roar, Perón and Eva turn their microphones into rhetorical firebrands, and Prince engulfs play ers and playgoers alike in a demagogic inferno...
...Bertolucci troubling us with these decadent people? It is not to create a morality play. The director does not ask us to care about his characters or even to judge them; they are only instruments to make us share his vision of the world. As always, Bertolucci owes a lot to Verdi, whose life and work is invoked here even more than in 1900. The director believes that life takes on its fullest meaning when it is lived at the intensely passionate pitch of grand opera. By sheer cinematic force, he seduces us into sharing his perverse, voluptuous sensibility...
...first play of the second half, Ferrante released a long shot from the right side of the field which dribbled past the charging Smith goalie and deflected off a Smith defensman into the open...
...divine retribution was in the air along with the rain-threatening clouds and on the next play, St. Louis headed a Brynteson airball into the Smith net for a clean score...
...next time St. Louis had a breakaway with half a minute left to play in the first half, her plan was not interrupted and she faked her way by a lone Smith defender and unleashed a bullet into the right side of the goal...