Word: potters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robert E. Potter, president of MIT Democrats, said that the Republican and Democrat clubs there will also hold a debate on November...
...upwardly mobile search for a normal employer who will treat her humanely. Initially a slave to the minister of the interior, who requires her to shave him every morning while he sits on his velvet-covered toilet, Eva moves to the home of a Yugoslavian potter. She teaches her the secret of creating images out of Universal Matter--a conglomeration of bread dough, dental cement and magic...
...Martin Linda's son? Does he even exist? Or has she created him out of her need for scenarios of lust and revenge? Those are just a few of the truth games played in this beguiling dark comedy by British Screenwriter Dennis Potter. As in his TV film The Singing Detective, Potter mixes memory and desire, threat and therapy, a misanthropic wit and the ache of nostalgia for old songs and sweeter dreams. Importing this brand of satire to rural America was a risk for Potter; some of his bleak irony must have been seized by Customs. But the ache...
...have the world's most vital, varied cinema. Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives -- the best film at the festival and the winner of a critics' prize -- portrays, through popular songs, a Liverpool family trapped in economic poverty and emotional repression. Nicolas Roeg's Track 29, written by Dennis Potter, goes splendidly berserk satirizing American males, obsessed with their toys, and American females, driven to homicidal embrace. In Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, three women murder their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, who is besotted, then drowned, by all three. Greenaway's pristine mannerism makes...
...puzzle or enigma. In many modern "detective" stories there is no true detective. What the French call a roman policier may not actually include the police. The British surmount the problem by calling the genre crime fiction. Perhaps the crime story is like pornography in Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's oft-cited formulation: impossible to define but unmistakable in its effects...