Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy went on to win that election with the help of his name, and what proved successful in 1962 is still successful today. No family has so singularly dominated the American political scene and been so successful in electoral politics for as long as the Kennedys...
...accepted as more or less reliable, and eyewitness accounts are energetically dramatized. Some characters are protected by pseudonyms. Others are fictional or, as the journalists prefer, "composites." In addition, dialogue that could not have been recorded firsthand is approximated for maximum effect. Here, for example, is a murder scene in which the victim, repeatedly shot, stabbed and bludgeoned, is as hard to kill as Rasputin...
...climax of the scene comes when he shouts at Lavinia, "You are really exceptionally unlovable." His chemistry with Lavinia is exceptional. The audience genuinely believes that they are a married couple whose relationship has gone sour. Unfortunately this moment, which constitutes one of the most memorable in the play, fades quickly, as does McNeill's evident acting ability...
...book. The characters in the movie are far more appealing than those in the novel. Watching them evokes sympathy, while reading about them provokes mainly dislike. As divorced mother Anna Dunlap, Diane Keaton is likeable and unpretentious. When she meets Leo, her lover-to-be, in a laundromat, the scene is free from the air of sleaze that surrounds it in the book...
Whatever happens on stage, it is always clear that this is theater--there's no pretention that the events are real. Most of the performers seem more to be going through a bizarre ritual called theater than actually imitating real people. Lengthy scene changes remind the audience that they are watching a spectacle, and a pretty uninspiring...