Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leads, Robert Zanon is most effective as the solemn and somewhat eerie Judge Laurence Wargrove, who organizes the guests' self-defense. Zanon is suitably authoritative and expresses well the mystery that surrounds each of the guests...
...conversion. Warns French Pundit Aron: "As long as these parties resemble an army of militants under the authority of a few, as long as they are prepared to do an about-turn either to the right or left when so ordered, no one will take even their most solemn declarations literally." Even if the Berlinguers are sincere, it is far from certain that once they are in office their views would continue to prevail over those of their colleagues, many of whom are Stalinists...
Following last week's solemn ceremonies, the Gibbsians quickly returned to their religious proselytizing, preparing tracts for publication and dissemination through a network of journals and "scientific" seminars. As one of the photographs smuggled out of the "lab" reveals, the Gibbsians are now trying to draw the godhead's body into existence out of photons and an erector...
Coma is the worst major film to appear this year, and without a doubt the most offensive. Director Michael Crichton '64 uses operations to keep the audience on its toes, and since the movie is devoid of humor there's nothing to relieve the tension. It's so solemn and literal-minded that it makes The Exorcist look positively expressionistic. Richard Widmark plays the head of a Boston hospital where young, healthy patients keep going into unexplained comas during routine operations. When he explains why he's doing it--the unimportance of the individual compared with the advancement of science...
...four later, "is like giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a corpse." The fiery consecration sermon by the Rev. George Rutler of Rosemont, Pa., compared the new bishops to Moses for leading their people out of the Episcopal Egypt. After a service of nearly three hours, the solemn congregation burst into applause as the resplendently robed and mitered clergymen were declared to be bishops...