Word: skills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finish of the Boston Marathon, let me tell you how pained I felt when I read Peter Stoler's claim that one must be a superb athlete to play left field for the Boston Red Sox, but anyone with enough determination can run a marathon. If it is simply skill that makes a superb athlete, I have no quarrel. But if physical conditioning has anything to do with it, sports physicians will confirm that the average marathoner is a more "superb" athlete than the fanciest of leftfielders...
Captain MacGraw did not think that Wellesley was much competition, noting that "They played rough, but they don't have much skill...
Very little-as one horrid event after another has proved in the past two decades-except possibly Director Frankenheimer's skill at building action sequences like the foul-up of the Super Bowl circus, which is the climax of Black Sunday. He has always been at his best when a script presents large technical challenges: the tight spaces of Birdman of Alcatraz, the wild railroad chase in The Train, the assassination attempt at a political convention in The Manchurian Candidate, to name the best of them all. Here he has more and perhaps richer elements than ever to play...
...their fates or pity for their states. The picture, in short, is without human interest-as most of Hollywood's big machines are these days. Since no one seems to care about these matters any more, Black Sunday may well make a bundle, thanks to the technical skill with which it manages its long-delayed payoff. But it is getting tiresome to be forced to admire, for want of anything else to do, the skill with which moviemakers jerk audiences around. It is hard to believe three grown-up men could not have written something worthwhile for Frankenheimer...
Labor Pains. English Actor Robert Powell handles the impossible role of Jesus with considerable skill. The script enables him to present a complex personality who chats amiably with the rabbis on whether "the Sabbath is made for man," but who also swings a heavy club to smash the money-changers' booths in the Temple. Olivia Hussey, who at age 15 played Juliet for Zeffirelli, is a winsomely girlish Virgin Mary who suffers real labor pains and is the object of respect, though not veneration, during Jesus' lifetime...