Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weakness, it turns out, is that in Nashville the characters don't have real choices to make, they are trapped in a society without decisive options. This is a view of America "in a pig's eye," he says. In fact, the Nashvilleans represent "a tiny segment of" American life. "These people do not have real decisions to make. They concern themselves chiefly with appearance and image. If they fall, they must move on. Inevitably their lives are hollow, their values shallow," Kraft admits that sometimes, "on the campaign level," politicians may concern themselves with image to the detriment...
...great American economic pie has, temporarily at least, ceased growing. Almost every year since World War II, the economy expanded prodigiously, and there seemed to be enough for everyone. But alas, says Califano, in a slow-growing economy, this country faces the prospect of satisfying new demands from one segment of society by taking away from others. That is terribly close to redistributing the wealth, something that the champions of liberal spending have talked about but never faced before in such stark reality. A lot of them are now finding cuts in Government more appealing than raises in taxes...
...Penn's directing is as appropriately open-ended as it is, then the hinted Wisdom of the script passes by even faster. Penn has a better way of conveying the mishmash moral atmosphere of Night Moves than Sharp's riddling. The director hasn't done anything except a quick segment of the Olympics in Visions of Eight since the days of Little Big Man, Alice's Restaurant and Bonnie and Clyde, and here he's much more easy going. He shoots a misty morning in Los Angeles like it's underwater, and the footage of the Florida Keys evokes...
...edited by Spielberg and the remarkable Verna Fields (who also cut American Graffiti and The Last Picture Show), everything finally paid off. "If you look carefully," Fields points out, "you will see blue sky in one segment of a scene, cloudy sky in another, choppy seas in one scene, glassy in another." No one will feel detached enough to notice. The movie moves like gang busters, so fast that none of the mismatches really show. Even Bruce looks like a star. "Except when he heaved himself out of the water-when he had a plastic look -I was quite surprised...
...Radcliffe lost another tough contest because of some lax play during a small segment of the game. Wheaton provides the Crimson's next opposition tomorrow, and perhaps then Radcliffe will finally put it all together and achieve some consistency for a whole game...