Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are not after all profound statements; the film is not telling us anything we haven't heard before. But its delicate picture of small town life and of an ordinary woman's endurance in the face of day to day misfortunes take the film outside of itself and raise it to the level of true art. American...
...fault of director Jeffrey Zaks or perhaps it is the weakness of the script itself, but the play's shift from slapstick None of the characters are developed enough to make their suffering believable and the play's broad beginning leaves the audience unprepared for any profound message hold coda might hold. Despite all the hoopla, Sister Mary's bark is a lot worse than her bite...
...Kremlin is preoccupied by the recurring problem of succession. The process is more complicated and painful than usual because it is the third period of uncertainty in two years (Leonid Brezhnev died in November 1982, Yuri Andropov last February). The upshot, says Harvard University Professor Richard Pipes, is "a profound crisis and lack of direction." Kremlinologist Marshall Goldman of Wellesley College in Massachusetts calls the Politburo situation "the worst of all circumstances. Everyone knows Chernenko is sick, so no change is possible...
...result, a fascinating and unusual look behind stereotypes and simple sociological analyses, is the profound achievement of Jewison and screenwriter Charles Fuller, who reworked his own critically acclaimed 1981 drama, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Soldier's Play...
...politicians in both parties agree that the ethnic hold over voters, and what some say is a continuing resentment towards the old-line Yankee Republicans, is being loosened, and that change could have a profound impact on both parties...