Word: retold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediacy and a love for detail of location and character that can only come from the deepest rapport with the subject matter. Comparisons have been made with Gone With the Wind, and snots have sniffed at the melodrama which can't be separated from the tenets of the retold crimes. No matter. There's heart to the work, and it starts to beat when the Don says "a man who can't spend time with his family is less than a whole man." Coppola takes off with a story in the grand tragic manner...
...aides and later Foreign Minister and President of the U.S.S.R., now retired and writing his memoirs. When Kaganovich was confronted with the false evidence against him, he asked permission to use Mikoyan's toilet, where he put a bullet through his head. The source of this story, as retold in Let History Judge, is Mikoyan himself...
Take past events as the repentant woman's past, always forgotten and always retold...
...problems that can sit uneasily in the back of anyone's mind until circumstances force action. Part of the appeal of these treatments is their style: the conscious methods of exposition and the unintentional slips of these student-writers say almost as much about their thoughts as do the retold experiences themselves. With occasional awkwardness and more than occasional effusiveness, the recollections are impressively successful in communicating how adolescence feels...
Despite its faults, Owen Wingrave is a stimulating example of how technology, tape and the small screen may someday acquire a highly useful role in opera. A switch to slow motion, with an accompanying abrupt shift from color to monochrome, helps evoke real horror as the legend is retold of how a young ancestor of Owen's was killed by his father for refusing to fight a friend. Limitations of time and space virtually dissolve as the camera crosscuts between-or juxtaposes on a split screen-characters who are in fact separated by days and miles. This enabled Britten...