Word: postscripted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such special sections did exist in France during the war; it is also true, as a postscript informs us, that not all of those who presided over them have been brought to account. But Costa-Gavras and Semprun only make the outrageous seem petty, and tragedy a thing of no greater human consequences than an other bad movie...
...young lady sits screaming on the toilet. The movie does have two energetic performances by Glynn Turman and Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, but they are just about overrun. One of the Cooley kids takes off for Hollywood to become a successful screenwriter and, we are informed in a Graffiti-like postscript, really makes it. He always figured he would, since he was so good at the hustle. If he is intended to represent the author of Cooley High, however, he is not quite as adept at it as he thinks...
...members of Harvard's economics department gathered last week at a party for professors who were retiring or departing, someone read a telegram from one of the guests of honor. The only clue it contained to the whereabouts of the missing professor, John Kenneth Galbraith, was the postscript: DICTATED IN BERLIN...
...characters are shallow, their situations trite, and the resolutions predictable. As a result, Scott's common themes--loneliness, disillusionment, fascination with the superficial-- which are usually well-engineered and gripping, grow repetitive and dull. "Love in the Night" like several other stories in this collection, ends with a saccharine postscript amounting to "they married and lived happily ever after." "The Dance" which involves a jealous murder, is so blatant that it reads like a cruddy mystery. Where plot and dialogue run thinnest, Fitzgerald seems to dwell on elaborate descriptions of resorts, bars, and clothes, reducing stories like "The Hotel Child...
...work as theater--and this is no mean accomplishment, considering the length of some of the speeches--they have not succeeded in laying bare Shaw's fundamental message. And perhaps it would be unfair to expect them to, because Shaw himself buried it in his final "stage direction," a postscript to "the reader" in which Shaw reveals that his own favorite character is not the preacher, who continues to preach despite his loss of faith, and who is the character most likely to be identified with Shaw, but rather the patient--"the woman of action...