Word: scene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SCENE: A red-velvet conference room in Rockefeller Center. The chairs are nice. Recording executives have gathered from all over the country. They drink sambuca. Three coffee beans. They like the chairs. One speaks...
McEnroe, a native of Queens, exploded onto the scene by making it to the semis at Wimbledon two years ago. At 20, he has not bothered to assume the icy demeanor of a Borg of the gentlemanly habits of Smith or Ashe. He plays like he's still on the junior circuit, where there are usually no linesmen to handle disputes, no crowd to jump on his every comment, no reporters to write columns like this...
...THOSE of you new to the Boston political scene, after two days of vigorous investigation, we are pleased to report the following...
Director Jerry Schatzberg has transferred television production techniques to the big screen in an attempt to reinforce the film's relation to current events like the Draft Kennedy movement. The effect is a cheap look for the film. A national convention scene looks like a Mets game, with an embarrassing sea of empty seats in the background. There is little location shooting, especially in Washington where the opportunities are abundant, which saps whatever realism Schatzberg managed to achieve with his spare direction...
...what's a family when you've found a soul-mate, another mover and shaker and eater of Maalox? Tynan's lack of concern for his non-political life is matched and complemented by Karen's similar interests. In a scene reminiscent of Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch's "business lunch" in Network, the senator and the lawyer share information about their upcoming confrontation with the Supreme Court nominee while performing stress tests on their new Posturepedic. Streep, tackling with stunning confidence an entirely different role from that she played in The Deer Hunter, evinces a magnetic attraction to power...