Word: sage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unsuccessful and barely tolerated. At that, the quality of his work scarcely matters because his audience applauds even his commonplace remark. He's trapped no matter what he does. When he gets a chance to ask a space visitor what he can do for mankind he gets this sage advice: "Make funnier movies...
...presenting a highly favorable portrait of an American sage, Steel fortunately does not overlook either his judgemental mistakes or his personal faults. But these cannot obscure the value of his vision. Lippmann once described the room he worked in. It was sound-proof, and he kept his desk away from the windows so the noise and glare of the outside world would not disrupt his concentration. In an electronic culture where the media forms public opinion through momentary impressions, where fragmentary polls haphazardly spell out the political future, Lippmann's example of a diligent, reflective spokesman who found the time...
...Zeus and vows to wipe out his followers in Thebes. Dionysus appears incognito, and a chorus of Asian-women converts hymn the beatific peace of serving the god of joy. Pentheus claps Dionysus in irons. The god miraculously escapes. Despite the politic advice of his sage grandfather Cadmus (Philip Bosco), the blind seer Tiresias (Tom Klunis) and Dionysus' chillingly prophetic warnings, Pentheus speeds to his appointed doom...
...sage once wrote that "life is a continual becoming." That is the message of Close Encounters-both kinds-and of the film-making tendency to take well-enough and try to make it better. The old Hollywood machine has become a malleable organism, as the new directors claim the right to restage their films the way George Balanchine keeps reshaping his ballets. Moviegoers are advised to join in the collaborative process. Shall we dance? -By Richard Corliss
...nutrition center in Sonora, Calif.: "I believe there is going to be a total collapse of the economy in this country, and it will provoke a worldwide depression." According to the survivalist scenario, those feckless optimists who are trapped in the nation's blighted cities will perish. The sage few who have gone back to the land-or at least to wholesome small towns-and have laid in provisions, firewood, kerosene lanterns, Q-Tips and radio batteries will survive...