Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class character appealing, but he cannot make Scudder or his love affair with Maurice very believeable. And although Wilby does manage to convey some of Maurice's more subtle changes over the film's five-year span, he and the other members of the cast never lose their stifling self-conciousness...
...audience with the parallels of the ballet Giselle with this film of Giselle. Shots of Giselle's grave in the staged ballet are interspersed with fuzzy-lensed shots of Lisa looking sickly angelic. And since Dancers is a film of the filming of Giselle, Ross attempts Bergman-like self-referentiality--with shots of cameras and film crews, lenses and light meters--but only succeeds in overstating his own inadequacy as a film director...
Blumenthal recalls a project that melanie wrote for his class during her freshman year. "Melanie wrote this truly astonishing thing in three parts. The first section was called `Thoughts on Love,' the second was `Thoughts on God' and the third was `Thoughts on Self.' It was astonishing how well-read she was in different areas and how well she was able to assimilate all of the information," he remembers...
...smooth to be Bruce, too rough not to be. It is likely to win back any old diehard devotees whose faith has been shaken in recent years and win over any remaining skeptics. It is very heartful, somewhat soulful and completely there. Which is to say, it's a self-aware album...
...gets to be the managing editor of the New York Times can safely be described as a man blessed with self-confidence. E. Clifton Daniel, now 75, demonstrated that quality anew last week when he ventured to name the ten most important headlines of the 20th century. He took this bold gamble in connection with an international project called Chronicle of the 20th Century, for which Daniel served as an editor and which undertakes to tell the history of the era in headlines and quasi news stories. Daniel...