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...main actor goes, there is no continuity problem at all. Connery is 007, pure and simple, and in Never Say Never Again his performance is not masked with heavy technology. It's all natural--especially the weapons...
House football takes itself seriously, but not too seriously to stifle the all-important element of fun. The pure and healthy combination of rigorous athletic battles and lighthearted games is carefully maintained by the University. It supplies everything from the jocks to the shoes to the shoulder pads...
...whereas in poetry itself T.S. Eliot's Hollow Men of 1925 seemed merely to breed the self-absorption of Robert Lowell's Life Studies in 1959. Tragedy shriveled to the Death of a Salesman. Robert Conquest wrote a poem, For the 1956 Opposition of Mars, in which he exulted, "Pure joy of knowledge rides as high as art." Knowledge has seemed to ride higher...
DANIEL, the much-touted "Rosenberg trial movie" of August, is simultaneously a nightmare, a documentary, and a work of pure fiction. The producers, Sidney Lumet and E.L. Doctorow, walk a tightrope between ideology and reality, fiction and non-fiction--and the balance they achieve is precarious at best...
...unreasonable to try to regard Daniel as either pure fiction or pure political statement. The social and political issues raised in the movie--justice in American society, the value of political activism, the vulnerability of civil liberties--could never appear as prominently and powerfully as they do without the legacy of the Rosenberg case: but the film resists giving answers on those issues by presenting them from a stubbornly emotional and subjective stance...