Word: reborning
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...stare that refuses to acknowledge the presence of either camera or audience. But this performance has a new focus. Rather than underscoring his decline by clinging to heroic roles (as Swann does). O'Toole confronts his age directly and triumphs over it. He emerges rejuvenated from My Favorite Year--reborn, in fact, as an immensely talented comedian, even a better actor (a process that was already evident in the wonderful, underrated The Stunt...
...many years the logo of the Saturday Review was a mythical bird: the phoenix, rising reborn from its own ashes. The symbolism remained apt even after the logo was dropped in 1977. During much of its 58-year life span, the "magazine of ideas," as it called itself, has lost money; since 1971 it has been sold or refinanced five times. SR has been by turns a weekly, a biweekly, a monthly; at one point it was split into four separate magazines. Over the years it shifted focus from books to popular culture to politics and science and then...
...Suddenly," Cross explains, "the department was big enough to fill the building." And so for all intents and purposes the museum was reborn: The department had ousted the CfIA from the upstairs office space by sheer strength of numbers. Agreeing for the most part with Cross's interpretation. O'Brien says, "The museum just expanded into its space...
...ultimately unsatisfied with the parable of wealth, family and a man who must face his own trivial life. Bertolucci concludes the work on a religious note--but again be fails to integrate, slapping on symbolism like an applique. Barefoot, the son reborn dances with the workers in an episode stylistically unrelated to the rest of the movie. Primo arrives at no revelation, achieves no redemption from his farcical life. He exists calling for more champagne, as bewildered as the audience...
Gary U.S. Bonds: Dedication (EMI America). Reborn rhythm and blues by a soul-solid singer...