Word: ruefulnesses
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...smart movie, vastly ambitious and entertaining, full of belief in Reed and in the ability of a popular audience to respond to him. It combines the majestic sweep of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago-David Lean and Robert Bolt's mature and exhilarating epics-with the rueful comedy and historical fatalism of Citizen Kane. Resisting the megalomania that attends the making of blockbusters, Beatty plays it not safe but careful, stocking the movie with ingratiating motifs: Christmas trees, old songs, dogs, hats, chandeliers, white lilies, waiting taxis and one adorably solemn child. Dispensing with period photos or newsreel...
...pilot was a hit with G-men, at least. At a screening at the bureau for some of them, the show won knowing nods and murmurs, rueful laughs of recognition, cheers and even shouts during the hot-pursuit finale...
...senator's only reference to his own political fortunes was a rueful observation that the last time he spoke in Faneuil Hall he announced his illfated candidacy for the 1980 presidential nomination...
...Wednesday evening a call came from the Illinois Beach State Park, 30 miles north of Chicago: a packet of Janice's ID cards had been found in a trash can. The next morning, Axthelm received the rueful letter, 13 pages handwritten by Runkle on the flight to O'Hare. In it she recounted her last, stormy hours with Campo. "The first two hours he spent threatening to kill both of us," she wrote. "Funny part is, a couple of years ago, I went out with someone he knew and he hardly batted an eye, though we were even...
...here; children and adults alike deserve to see the film and be surprised by its resolution. But it can be said that by film's end an uneasy truce obtains. Like pairs off with like, and the childhood friends are last seen in their separate worlds, awash in rueful nostalgia and a musical score that ends in a minor key. Viewers should be less melancholy. They need not leave this film comparing it unfavorably with the great Disney films of everyone's youth...