Word: sourfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JOURNEY of the Fifth Horse demands consideration on two levels. On the first, it cleverly interweaves the tales of two social misfits in the late-nineteenth century St. Petersburg. Zoditch (Richard Gruish), first reader in the ramshackle Grubove publishing Company, has turned sour and misanthropic in response to his social unacceptability. But Chulkaturin (Paul Benedict), an idle landowner of independent means, has adopted a gentle, wistfully philosophic air. His memoirs, submitted posthumously to the publishing company and read by Zoditch, constitute one of the play's two plots. The other revolves around Zoditch's impoverished life in a miserable boarding...
...obvious with political ironies that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies. Spacek and Lemmon, an appealing sweet-and-sour combo, sink in the swamp of good intentions. Perhaps Costa-Gavras should jump back on the locomotive of melodrama. When he stands still, he builds prefab tract houses...
...Harvard power-play, on a sour streak that included an oh-for-six night in Monday's Beanpot loss to Boston University. finally got untracked A Mark Fusco blast from the point past old nemesis Paul McCarthy at 13 28 proved to be the perfect wake up call for the Harvard offense...
...level of suffering among these children seems to be in direct proportion to their level of optimism. Aida in the West Bank and Joseph in Belfast are far more soured on life than are Boutros and Jamila in Lebanon, who have more to be sour about. This is not surprising; adults who have endured hardships often manage a more optimistic view than their experiences would justify. What is surprising here is that some of the children who have suffered the most are not only the more optimistic; they also show the greatest amount of charity toward their fellows, including their...
...ultimate question is, "Who has authority?" not "What do we do with it once we have it?" Jaffe admitted that the folks at the real-life Valley Forge Military Academy--where Taps was filmed--were not at all pleased by the final product. There was probably more to that sour reaction than simply confusion over an implausible plot. For all of its flaws, Taps is a good argument in favour of run-of-the-mill places called Central High...