Word: saint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...null rejection of the defenseless Pomme exemplifies the way the rich exploit the working class. But, unlike so many recent ideologically minded films, The Lacemaker never sacrifices the integrity of its characters to its political message. Rather than turn Francois into a snotty villain and Pomme into a peasant saint, Goretta, an eyenhanded Swiss, attacks the system that victimizes them both. The movie's title, with its allusion to 17th century genre paintings, suggests the delicacy of Gor-etta's style...
...with this sketch of an age one imagines in likewise indefinite terms. Binet was very fond of flowers and there are several rather innocuous but decorative paintings of poppies, roses or a flowering tree over a stream. And yet one begins to wonder about this artist while looking at "Saint Mandrier," a view of boats moored at a dock. Painted in 1943, it is almost identical technically and in mood to his turn-of-the-century vista of Evian. In an age when one is accustomed to an artist's regular reappraisal and redirection of his own work, this continuity...
Though the U.S. was aware that the Soviets were nearing a breakthrough, Brown conceded that "we do not have an operational capability" to down other spacecraft. Oddly enough, the U.S. did have that capability in a limited form until 1975. The Pentagon had been developing a satellite inspector system (SAINT), but junked it before its first flight...
...Episcopal Church, which remained unified while other American denominations were sundered over the slavery issue, is now dividing over women priests. Some of the dissidents are leaving to form a new church; more are staying to fight from within. Last week at a resort in Port Saint Lucie, Fla., 125 members of the church's House of Bishops met and struggled to prevent further damage...
...self-aware villain, scoring stunning acting points without carrying complete emotional conviction. And Stefan Gierasch's Orgon is not quite the ideal foil. He seems more like an exacerbated paterfamilias who wants Tartuffe to cow his recalcitrant brood rather than a breathless gull hopelessly infatuated by a bogus saint...