Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole film is a transparent Russian nationalist allegory for the Second World War consisting almost entirely of battle scenes. For the first twenty minutes the sight of these elaborately armored and cross bedecked knights fighting in the snow seems breathtaking, but the effect soon wears off and cannot sustain the last two hours. Eisenstein made this film to please Stalin, making it possible for him to film the brilliant and subtly antistalinist epic Ivan the Terrible, an infinitely more interesting film whose courage and vision vindicate Eisenstein for making Nevsky...
Still, the index seems to show that while the recovery has not been reversed, it surely has slowed. The G.N.P grew by 9.2% in the first quarter, by only 4.5% in the second, and was general expected to sustain its second-quarter growth in the third. Now many economists will be revising their third-quarter predictions downward...
...into, this simple film, focusing entirely on Finney's Frank Elliot and his wife, Nora, played by Rachel Roberts, jolts us with an unrelentingly realistic, though extreme, view of the psychological crisis of a not old, but not young couple who choke on all the subtle lies needed to sustain the new 'honesty...
...public or private life that suggests he is a religious fanatic. As Governor, he maintained a strict separation of church and state, even canceling a series of official prayer breakfasts in the statehouse, which had been started by an earlier Governor. Moreover, while his religion may help sustain him over the long political haul (he says he sometimes prays as often as 25 times a day), the most important factors in his rise have been his intelligence and his toughness...
...continued life of the revolution, Terrill believes, "you can't sustain a revolution forever--that's the internal logic and the sociology of it." Revolution happens, he says, when people feel an intolerable injustice, but it is not required in the push for perfectability. Terrill does allow for the possibility that the Chinese will grow apathetic, making it easier for a rigid bureaucracy to take root--"the old combination of legalism from above and Taoism from below...