Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MUCH OF THE appeal of The Traitors stems from its straightforward story line. The brutality of the opening scene pervades the movie, though usually not through such outright violence but through the blatant rapacity and selfishness of Barrera's motives. After seeing the young, sincere Barrera win his first election as leader of a local union, we are shocked at the off-handed manner in which he suggests to other union officials that they take over an illegal numbers game conducted in the factory in order to fill the union's coffers. The scenes of each passing year chronicle increasing...
DIRECTOR William has not left a strong personal imprint on the production; for the most part it plays itself in a straightforward manner, running two and a half hours. But he has chosen to underline the thematic importance of the sea. Not only do the waves move, but he also gives us a soundtrack of their swashing, and even an actual ocean mist. When Viola is washed up on the Illyrian shore, she turns and takes a long look at the ocean before telling the Captain, "Lead me on." At the very end, while the Clown sings the stanzas...
Even such able performers as Gene Hackman and Liv Ullmann cannot bring off a rescue effort without a little help from the writer and the director. Writer Norman has contented himself with providing a painfully straightforward story line, to which Director Troell has pinned a number of handsome album shots that appear to have been left over from his earlier The Emigrants and The New Land. There was a certain stately glory to those works, a sense that Troell's pioneers were big enough to deserve the great country he seemed to perceive with a fresh eye. In Zandy...
...Mondale subcommittee probe last week of the Epilepsy Foundation of America revealed that straightforward aid to the needy is far from a certainty. Mondale's investigators found that more than half of the $4 million the E.F.A. spent last year went to meet fund-raising and administrative costs. The Senator fears that similar slipshod management may be going on in other children's charities. To correct such abuse, he thinks it may become necessary to require charitable groups to adopt uniform accounting procedures. Other possible strictures: limit the amount they spend on fund-raising promotions and include brief...
Steven Grossman. His ads say, "Through his songs, Grossman gives an honest, straightforward insight into the gay life." If true, he's worth hearing. Through Sunday, April 21 at Passim. Call 492-7679 for information...