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...bombing--which occurred on Dizingoff St., the city's commercial center--is the most recent of a series of terrorist attacks claimed by the group, including the recent kidnapping and slaying of an Israeli soldier. These events have occurred in stark contrast to recent triumphs by leaders Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin in promoting the Arab-Israeli peace process...
...said to have one. The viewer is left with her beautiful face, her dynamic hair, the motions of her hands, as clues to the meaning of Antonioni's relentlessly difficult and oppresive representation of human interaction. She becomes a crucial element of the stark, geometric environment in which she lives. Her feelings, it seems, hold the clue to the movie's elusive meaning and moral framework. But her feelings are inscrutable...
...narrative looseness, "L'Avventura" is compositionally air-tight. Emotional distance is made literal on screen. The stark black and white of even starker landscapes and the often contrasting coloring of clothes or hair serve to accentuate the social distance with which Claudia, Sandro and their acquaintances struggle...
Henry Fonda is especially persuasive as the quiet, dignified marshal. It is very similar in its understatement to the role he played equally well in Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West." Both required Fonda to take on a stark, but powerful persona. The relationship he forges with Doc Holliday's former fiancee Clementine Carter (Cathey Downs) is noteworthy because it is one of the few times this mythical hero bares his human side. While Wyatt Earp is always under control as he approaches danger, it is a woman who takes him off guard...
...those articles, Cole cut a stark figure. The brilliant Harvard instructor was speaking out against the vagaries of exaggerated accomplishments. The importance of standards and truth, he argued, were being lost in a sea of relativism...