Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what we get here are a series of unfunny slapstick scenes and running jokes which leave the viewer with a frozen smile on his face. The only really funny shtick has been shown on television commercials so many times that it loses its value...
...prescient. Today the moment-by-moment potential for nuclear war supplies the apocalyptic undercurrent. In both eras, the ambitions of architects and artists seem rather diminished, their work purely picturesque or else merely solipsistic. Now as then, people dress beautifully, live elegantly, party madly, and wonder with a sly smile about the end of the world...
...perhaps even more sensitive to the curious ways of her adopted country, silently indulgent of good old American exuberance, excess and, yes, glitz. Though millions of visitors gawked at her, perhaps no one looked quite closely enough. Let them cavort, she seemed to say with an imperceptible smile. Liberty may be proud, but she isn't haughty. Look again. Was that--could it have been--a wink...
Besides Wang, the other actors help make this movie a true slice of life and not a cliched fable. A registration clerk in a Peking hospital, QinQin as LiLi seems as real as the girl next door. Hiding behind pigtails and a teasing smile, QinQin makes Lili more appealing to the audience than any other character in the movie...
...place of endless sagebrush and soaring golden eagles, undergirded by rich seams of coal and uranium, where a band of perhaps 1,000 or so Navajo has vowed to resist relocation. "To move away is to disappear," says Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly resister with an easy smile. "In our traditional tongue, there is no word for relocation...