Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, his sober formalism helps maintain the viewer's bearings in the midst of a busy, vertiginous film. He is, on balance, right to let material as original as this speak in its own peculiar and arresting accents. -By Richard Schickel
...government finance officials from 22 countries sipped champagne at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and sampled Viennese pastries in the gorgeous Longwood Gardens of the Pierre S. du Pont estate. But during the daytime closed-door meetings at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, the business was serious and the mood sober. Bankers were groping once again for solutions to the Latin American debt dilemma, which was threatening to take another turn for the worse...
Irwin says she was sober. According to her lawyer, Alan Goodman, she declined the test for fear the police would falsify the results: many Ware residents resent Irwin's financial windfall at the taxpayer's expense. The arrest, he suggests, "appears to be more than coincidental." But Police Chief Stanley Mettig is unbudging. Declares he: "The bottom line is she was caught red-handed...
...adroit and sometimes witty special effects. These are classic directorial occasions, and Nimoy rises to them with fervor, in effect beaming his film up onto a higher pictorial plane than either of its predecessors. One might not want to have the Enterprise crew take up permanent residence on that sober and lofty level...
Montanans are used to Custer controversy. The Crow Indians, who hold most of the 9,000 privately owned acres slicing through the battlefield, leased land for the 1969 filming of Little Big Man, which portrayed Custer as a grandiose madman. Monument boosters who prefer a more sober-eyed version of the hero are trying to raise $8 million to buy the land...