Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost daily rush of revelations, it is not easy for the numbed citizen to keep in mind the full enormity of "Watergate." Despite ample instances of past Government corruption, nothing can be found in U.S. history even remotely approaching the skein of events that the word Watergate no longer defines or contains. A Vice President, twice personally chosen by Nixon, forced to resign to escape jail. A former Attorney General and intimate adviser to Nixon under indictment. Another former Cabinet member under indictment. One of the two most powerful presidential aides under indictment. Six other White House aides or Administration...
...such a long and daunting project, Iceman was made quickly: three weeks of rehearsal, eight weeks of shooting. Occasionally the rush shows, in a composition that is a little too static or in a microphone shadow against a wall. Overall, though, Frankenheimer's production is careful and vigorous. Harry Hope's bar looks dingy but never hokey. The photography keeps the backgrounds in as sharp perspective as possible, letting each viewer select his own point of focus. In that respect, this Iceman resembles the style of Orson Welles' banquet scene in Citizen Kane, in which each face...
Reporters stood to rush for telephones. Sirica ordered them to sit down. Still seeming suspicious, he asked: "You will follow the decisions or statements delineated by me?" Said Wright: "We will comply in all respects with what Your Honor has just read." Moments later, Wright added: "This President does not defy the law, and he has authorized me to say he will comply in full with the orders of the court." The judge smiled broadly. "Mr. Wright," he said, "the court is very happy the President has reached this decision...
Monsieur Verdoux is Chaplin's last great film. With Limelight (1952), he descended into stiff, nostalgic melodrama. But in Verdoux Chaplin is still in his prime, questioning life in a way outside the scope of his earlier masterpieces, redirecting the passionate feelings which ennobled The Gold Rush, Modern Times, and City Lights...
...Rush hour cars move by the river toward the Mass Pike; in Harvard Stadium field lights go on to repel the dusk. On the field, the Crimson varsity continues to work...