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...Rodrigo merely as a symbol, such superficial characterization might suffice. But instead, the play tries to fathom his anguished jealousy of the village priest's power over the villagers, an emotion the audience cannot appreciate fully without understanding why this power means so much to Rodrigo. His apparently pointless anger at times even risks belittling the revolutionary cause and the very real tragedies behind...
...book's central characters--a British war correspondent and a Confederate nurse--spy for the Union. Each believes that the South will fail and that the war is a pointless tragedy. Though they betray information on the size and location of Confederate forces, the Union army in Virginia fails to respond in time. The fighting plods on; the war captures the nation...
Measure for measure, Petrie's incompetence matches Gould's. As illustrated by The Betsy and Resurrection, Petrie is an equally mediocre talent. In Fort Apache he relies on pointless camera meanderings, a la Brian De Palma, to give the illusion of a consistent style. The frequent tracking, zooming, and panning--usually from Paul Newman's right profile to his left--generally serve no purpose...
...nations--only live to dominate and that they will stop at nothing, not murder, not genocide, not war. Resnais' camera then takes us for a sudden, completely unexpected, brutally chilling brief tour of the South Bronx. If Laborit's analyses seem a little too pat when concerned with the pointless, emotional cruelty we inflict on one another in our personal relationships, his dominance theory is terrifyingly precise when it deals with global kingdom-making. And Resnais' haunting last shot could convert many a cynic to Laborit's religion. Wrong or right, you've got to give him credit for trying...
...position of sitting in judgment of their peers on controversial political matters This consensus has been firmly established over a period of ten years, and it seems very plausible that the Faculty, when prevailed upon, will respect its existence and relieve Dean Epps of the onerous, embarrassing, boring and pointless task of making an offer which the student body has repeatedly and emphatically refused. Bob McCoy...