Word: shatteringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perhaps because some dreams are better left alone lest they shatter at a touch and lose their magic in becoming real. This movie does just that to Tolkien. But that won't stop anyone from turning out the second half of Bakshi's tour de force. Once the Ring took control of its possessor, nothing could stop him from wanting more and more, even if the ultimate result was for the worst. Hollywood has the Ring now, and the business of perversion proceeds as Tolkien might have predicted. "...In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows...
...romance as silly as this one, developing it in a totally banal fashion, then you must believe that the public will accept almost anything. Given Rocky's record, this is an understandable belief, but one rather expects Slow Dancing's performance at the box office may shatter...
...ignores this, but giggles apprehensively about the infant Nazi Party: "The National Socialists are against the Socialists and also against the Nationalists." In an odd scene witnessed by the distracted chocolate manufacturer, Brownshirts throw bricks at the shopwindow of a Jewish butcher, but the bricks do not seem to shatter the glass...
Ominously, the raids by guerrillas loyal to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU), headed by Joshua Nkomo, appear to be aimed at new targets. Both black and white moderates have become priority victims?a tactic apparently intended to shatter the country's already sagging morale. In one of the most gruesome of such recent terrorist incidents, 39 black moderates of Sithole's faction who had been sent into the bush to convince dissidents that the transition was working were captured and executed; their bodies were then laid out by the guerrillas...
...pondered the little things that shatter human aspirations. Lee had been given some raspberries by Marylanders on his way to Gettysburg. He had eaten them and had an upset stomach. Had that figured in Lee's problems? "I'll tell you," smiled Carter, "I've been in Mexico when for a couple of days I could not have led anything...