Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supernatural things." They concentrated on Christ's reputation as a humanitarian thinker, the charismatic leader of a dissident movement and a victim who might variously suggest latter-day martyrs like Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. "A big point of Superstar," Rice explains, "is to show the way people react...
...name, on it. He knew that the life of the diving bell and the treadmill was not what he wanted for himself, but he did not know how best to escape it. He knew that if he were to escape or perhaps merely survive, he would have to react, but he knew neither what tack to take nor what supplies he had to draw upon. So, as much out of a lack of alternatives as anything else, George Jackson went with his father west to America's Promised Land...
...mile off. The real area of work was preparing instructions for the jury. The court people, the clerk and reporter and bailiff, keep you right on track. I really had fun." Added Goodin: "When you're up there running the joint, it's different. You have to react instead of act. From being a rabid advocate, you've got to try to become a wise and just judge. Keeping your mouth shut is a heck...
...completely, it is a measure of the film's quality that we take it seriously enough to judge it by our own lives--as we do with the best art. For the film's characters live an existence as complex and seemingly arbitrary as our own, and they react honestly--if not profoundly--to their situation...
...whose mass indifference breeds indifferent hate, with daily news bulletins which predict national disaster in stentorian tones of doom. (Seeing the film in the U.S. makes the voicing of Eden-like attitudes towards America seem an additional cruelty). If muted passions give the characters their interest, the way they react to dulling workday situations reveals their depths...