Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a wonderful movie fighting to get out of this $50 million musical. Unfortunately for Producer Ray Stark, the movie is Camille, that transcendent Garbo weepie, which Daddy Warbucks takes his button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance: Annie is set in 1933; Camille was released in 1937.) In an adroit 4½-minute condensation, the tragic story of Marguerite and Armand unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture...
...DEATH! proclaimed the posters that appeared all over Buenos Aires last week. Above that stark message was the image of a bullet-riddled Union Jack. Beneath it, in fine print, was the English inscription, "I'm sorry." To the right, a bold warning: "We knew how to give our lives for our Malvinas. And now we will know how to kill whoever tries to take them away from...
...clashes followed Secretary of State Alexander Haig's stark warning on Friday that "the South Atlantic crisis is about to enter a new and dangerous phase, in which large-scale military action is likely." The showdown had indeed seemed inevitable by the end of last week as British forces imposed their total blockade and Argentine troops dug in to defend the territory they had themselves seized by force...
...many of the PLO and Pattullo controversies, then, seems stark. Few groups have tried harder to impress upon others the need for the tolerance than Jews or homosexuals, both groups, with long his tones of discrimination, have made impressive strides, certainly on this campus. In seeking to secure their states, both groups recently sought either directly as in the PLO instance, or indirectly, as in the GSA case--to silence their critics. Neither, it seems, has learned a fundamental lesson that groups who preach tolerance cannot be in-tolerant towards opposing views without inviting a dangerous--and intolerant backlash...
...desire to be taken seriously and to leave us with the same stark blacks and whites in which he now shoots his movies is understandable, but so far it hasn't worked Allen hasn't yet learned the art that would make pathos powerful without laughs--at least not well enough to make us care...