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...torturers ten years ago. There is surely a film here, but Attenborough and Screenwriter John Briley can't find it. The men who made Gandhi turn their Steve Biko (Denzel Washington, from TV's St. Elsewhere) into a saintly apparition; he is first seen swathed in blinding sunlight and last seen shimmering in the memory of his friend Donald Woods (Kevin Kline), a white newspaper editor. Biko is a passive hero, valued not for what he achieves but for what he endures. He is a placard masquerading as a character. For all the strength and dignity that Washington invests...
...effects of climatic phenomena that have never been seen. In 1983 a group of scientists that included Cornell's Carl Sagan calculated what would happen if the U.S. and the Soviet Union fought a nuclear war. Their conclusion: the dust and smoke from burning cities would blot out enough sunlight to plunge the land into a "nuclear winter" that would devastate crops and lead to widespread starvation...
...movement of air from the tropics, where most ozone is created, to the poles could easily result in less ozone reaching the Antarctic. Another theory: perhaps the sunspot activity that peaked around 1980 created more ozone- destroying nitrogen radicals than usual, which would be activated each spring by sunlight...
Following college, he began a more or less conventional career of academic jobs in this country, leavened by ruminative sojourns abroad. Martins Ferry continued to haunt him. Toward the end of his life, strolling through the golden sunlight of Italy, he could momentarily be blinded by a memory of the black snowdrifts back home and "the mill smoke that gets everything in the end." Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry in 1972 and died of cancer eight years later...
FORTUNATELY, the actual filming of Dancers offers some viscerally exciting movement and light. Especially well-executed are a scene of the dancers eating pasta in the Italian countryside as well a sequence in which Tony dances alone bathed in five o'clock sunlight. Why, however, such flawless cinematography was not employed during the 20-minute-long sequence of the actual staged ballet remains a mystery. Nevertheless, the audience is thankful for the respite from cliched and silly dialogue that this 20 minutes provides...