Word: rest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more serious fish to fry. These take the form of ponderous reflections on the contemporary situation of the sexes, on which subject he is distressingly garrulous, and not exactly Wildean in expressing himself. A digression into homosexuality is well-meaning, but somehow patronizing and out of tone with the rest of the film. A bedtime discussion between Moore and Andrews about just what he means by the term "broad" establishes Edwards' credentials as a feminist, but does not contribute much to the gaiety of nations. There are some boozy barroom dissertations that are every bit as entertaining on film...
Unfortunately Bellon vitiates the intensity by allowing the rest of her film to deteriorate into a series of rigid and predictable scenes: the deeply wounded victim refusing at first to bring charges; her boyfriend reacting with outrage but with a lack of true understanding; the community half suspecting that the victim may have done something to provoke the crime; the rapists, when they are finally brought to trial, insisting that they were indeed enticed into their act; the woman, supported only by a friend, forced to relive the most ghastly moments of her life in testimony and in re-enactment...
...delegates had ample cause to be gloomy. A forecast by the IMF staff said that the combination of higher OPEC oil prices and the U.S. recession will force the rest of the industrial world into a stagflation swamp next year. Average inflation in industrial countries will rise to about 8.7%, and growth will fall to a meager...
...They said we would stay overnight in San Francisco, so I could rest up a little, and fly out in the morning. I said that would be nice. They said maybe the money problem could be resolved in my favor. Like a kind of unofficial reward. Like, maybe, a bounty. I said that would be nice. I looked out the car window at the tall evergreens and wondered why all the birds had left this part of the world. Jake turned the wipers on, smearing the small sad rain. I think they were glad to stop trying to relate...
...Lear enter's Poor Tom's hovel--for his intermission; the mounting horror in the theater suddenly dissipates when you buy your "Jamaica Cola" in the lobby, and it's difficult to take Lear's self-dramatizing declamation right after a desultory intermission conversation, or a trip to the rest rooms. Thus such atrocities as the general guffaw that followed Lear's "Didst thou give all to thy daughters?" last Thursday night...