Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vladimir Potashov: To know what it was like to be betrayed by Ames, one has only to listen to Potashov recount his ghastly experiences. A young disarmament specialist who fed information to the CIA while working in Moscow for the prestigious Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, he was arrested on July...
...special, filmed on location, takes Herschbach to a suburb of Stockholm to visit the home and recount the achievements of chemist Alfred Nobel, who developed nitroglycerine, the active ingredient in dynamite...
Regrettably, some of the American pieces are the weakest of the lot. Relying on a filmsy premise and marred by silly synthesized pseudo-rap, "Mrs. Matisse" tries to recount Henri's beleaguered wife's tale of woe but ends up sounding silly. "Opposing Views," featuring chicken and egg talk-show guests seems a waste of all the work which undoubtedly went into it. With so much time to spend thinking about it, getting beyond the first joke shouldn't be so hard for an animator...
Wilfrid Sheed's In Love with Daylight (Simon & Schuster; 252 pages; $23) and Paul West's A Stroke of Genius (Viking; 181 pages; $21.95) are similar medical memoirs, kind of Blue Cross specials in which the writers recount their tussles with diseases and the imperfect professionals who treat them. Sheed is a novelist, essayist and critic with few equals in the styling of buoyant observations on the decline and fall of just about everything. Prolific only begins to describe West, whose 14 novels, nine works of nonfiction and two volumes of poetry exhibit a range of imagination and richness...
Jeremy Leven's "Don Juan de Marco" is a dishearteningly monochromatic interpretation of the world's most notorious lover. Johnny Depp, with his penchant for eccentric roles, seems to be an inspired choice to play the mysterious, sensuous young man who appears in the late twentieth century to recount intimate memories of his prolific love life. But as the picture-perfect sunsets flash across the screen, the lovely ladies disrobe, the orchestra hums and the saccharine sentiments fly, it becomes apparent that his Don Juan is just another primetime soap opera rogue...