Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peace has been a Stone preoccupation for years. The latest Bi-Weekly notes archly that little-noticed congressional hearings reveal that $1.3 billion in Food for Peace funds has been used for military purposes in the past 17 years. That sets Stone off against military assistance: "It encourages the effort to confront political and economic problems with force. It exacerbates economic distress by imposing the burden of large armies, and intensifies rebellion by repression." He scorns military-assistance teams trained specially to get involved in the life of the country where they are stationed: "This is a distant echo...
Attempting to reveal pyschology through music, Director Russell makes every character grotesque, every bar of music programmatic. Ballets are transformed into pastoral scenes, concertos into imaginary duels. In a crescendo of vulgarity, the 1812 Overture becomes, in Tchaikovsky's beleaguered brain, an execution. Each cannon shot lops off the head of a tormentor: sister (Sabina Maydelle), patron, lover...
Mystery writers get an undeserved dividend from critical custom, which forbids reviewers to reveal the plot or the gimmick to readers even if it is threadbare or an insult to ordinary intelligence...
Isolated Children. What the therapists find most intriguing are some of the recurring themes that reveal how children feel about their families. Kids who feel neglected will time and again draw their mothers cleaning house and their fathers driving off to work, while "tough or castrating" fathers are often pictured mowing the lawn or chopping wood. The cat, soft and furry but armed with claws -a creature symbolizing ambivalence -turns up frequently in pictures by girls who both love and hate their mothers...
...stories about David Lean's painstaking efforts to make his postcard flawless are true: he did keep his crew waiting three days on a beach until an angry-enough looking wave rolled in. They reveal his incompetence, however, more than his megalomania. Lean redid a month's shooting at $28,000 a day because Robert Mitchum's costume was "too little Lord Fauntleroy"-a point Mitchum had made before shooting began. And consider the product of all Lean's care. Its romanticism is so retarded as to give the heroine a white mare and her lover a black stallion...