Word: potente
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...boxing team, which won five golds in Montreal, would have been potent again this year. In freestyle wrestling and men's gymnastics, the U.S. and Japan would have given the Soviets all they could handle. But now gymnastic heart throb Kurt Thomas is an ABC sports commentator, and the wrestlers are mourning their lost opportunity. Says Don Krone, staff administrator for the A.A.U.'s wrestling division: "It may set our program back two or three years." With the U.S. men's basketball team at home, the gold medal should easily revert to the towering Soviets...
...what looks to be the foulest and most corrupt prison in America, is not as close to everyone's concerns as All the President's Men was, nor has it the knockabout charm of The Electric Horseman. But it is an often powerful film. Its most potent passages come at the beginning. Redford, in the title role, becomes an inmate in a prison in order to experience conditions there firsthand before he takes over as warden. Since I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang almost half a century ago, moviegoers have periodically been made painfully aware...
...agonizing moment late in the play, he shakes his head in bewilderment and says, "I don't know what I believe any more." The scene is made all the more poignant since we have been seeing what he does put his faith in. He is a potent tippler of sparkling burgundy and relishes his Mercedes. With Gaelic guile he manipulates parish politics from his pulpit. He does not so much preach to his flock as poll it. What his parishioners want to hear, he tells them. He salves the consciences he was pledged to arouse. In the sad coldness...
This should have been a tale of potent pa thos, but Brook's barebones staging starves The Ik of emotive power. It is a case of Less Is Not Enough...
...Darth Vader, whom he decapitates. Vader's mask breaks away and reveals Luke's own face; the symbol of evil was in Luke. Later, when he battles the real Vader, he is again tested, and Vader's evil has a magnetic power that is far more potent than the weapon he carries in his gloved hand. Luke, who is not yet strong or virtuous enough to resist such temptation, escapes only by letting himself fall desperately into the void below...