Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loury's compelling call for the Black community to look inward for solutions to its problems has gained currency on the national scene--but not to the benefit of conservatives. Jesse Jackson has become the undisputed leader of Blacks partly on the strength of his call for young Blacks to recognize that despite their disadvantages they are "somebody." And it was a progressive Black sociologist, William Julius Wilson, who built a top academic career on arguments that racism fails to account for Black exclusion in America. His analysis has a strong class component...
...Scene opens on a lone figure, Harvard hockey Coach Bill Cleary, pacing the mushy ice of Bright Center in late August. Cleary is contemplating the upcoming 1987-'88 Crimson season. He's smiling...
...film is a barrage of color and motion, consisting mainly of animation except the initial scene's live photography, filmed in the Cambridge Common...
...from its ashes, Lucy pulls herself together. With the help of eccentric millionaire Hastings Lacey Jr. (Austin Pendleton), she opens up her own daycare center and becomes the focus of her own publicity campaign--all in a day's work. To make the fairy tale complete, on to the scene arrives the handsome prince, Dr. Scanlon (Gabriel Byrne), whose swarthy good looks win over Lucy's affections...
Dark Eyes illustrates Romano's saga with colorful acting and superb cinematography. Like Mikhalkov's earlier Oblomov, Dark Eyes is set in an era of decadence. It is fun to see the fancy balls, elaborate spas, mansions and frills that are all part of the scene. Mikhalkov's characters move about in this effusively elegant world with a naturalness which most films about the turn-of-the-century fail to capture. But with its shift from one setting to another, the film almost has the feel of a pictorial travelogue...