Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BUTEVEN with fine acting, the film would still be distorted by unusual filming techniques. Filmed at various speeds, the movie blasts too far forward in a flurry of quickly edited footage of Charlie's arrival on the island. Various scenes are introduced--as if in a silent film--with a paragraph describing the proper procedure for that part of the wedding. These "clever" filming devices deter from the movie's overall effect, confusing the central action...
...leaders excite great controversies. If one wants insight into how an individual thinks and feels as an adult, it makes common sense that his family background and early years will often provide a clue. "The successful leader must know when to light and when to retreat, when to be silent and when to compromise, when to speak out and when to be silent" Future Churchills and DeGaulles must be snapping to attention...
...Jerusalem, Prime Minister Begin avoided all public comment, thereby drawing a rebuke from the Jerusalem Post. The paper regretted that Begin, "whose sensitivity to anti-Semitism and communal animosity is well known, should choose to remain silent." Once again, as in the aftermath of the Beirut massacre last September, it was left to President Yitzhak Navon to address the nation's conscience. Navon, a Sephardic Jew, called for an investigation and at the same time denounced the "criminal exploitation" of the tragedy...
...last March because he would speak out against the plant's shoddy management. Eugeniusz, who does not want his last name to be used, kept his job thanks to a successful appeal, but the experience chastened him. "Everyone is unhappy with the situation here, but they remain silent because of fear," he says. "How can there be any kind of reform when people cannot speak out and the authorities will not listen...
...plus the thousands of Stevensonians who fell in love with more than a dozen previous books. For The Baby Uggs Are Hatching (Greenwillow; $9.50) he adds a dash of Lear to Jack Prelutsky's hilarious nonsense verse about the Sneepies ("... lying in a pile,/ are still and silent all the while./ They stay beside my underwear .../ I wonder why they like it there."), the Smasheroo, the Dreary Dreeze, the Flotterzott and other beings unmentioned by zoologists but familiar to any child in a darkened room...