Word: thereinlies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Historian Peg Weiss, is therefore largely about the Jugendstil, or youth-style-the art-nouveau porridge of medievalism, forest fantasies, greenery-yallery decor and arts-and-crafts utilitarianism that was cooking in the Munich studios when Kandinsky made his late start as a 30-year-old art student therein...
...therein, alas, lies the difficulty--for the segments of Fran's life that unroll before us are only that, intervals between the events that have shaped here sorrows. Alfred's elliptical structure is deliberate, its patterns regular enough for the viewer to eventually catch on. Realizing he is supposed to be seeing the result of each crisis for Fran, he can reconstruct from there--but the job is difficult and distracting, and finally irritating. The very loving care and vividity lavished on these scenes have a subversive effect on the audience. Like it or not the scenes have a subversive...
...inability to effect major changes during his brief tenure in Washington, the author doesn't push his analysis much past interpreting the motives of his former colleagues. In fact, now that he has abandoned public service, Fromson seems to have gotten serious about writing qua writing, and therein lies the problem with his book...
Propelled by piety, Lady Marchmam (Bloom) tries to mold everyone into goodness. Therein lies much of the family tragedy. Lord Marchmain (Olivier), his love turned to hatred, has gone into self-imposed exile in Venice; Sebastian becomes a doomed and hopeless alcoholic. "Poor Mummy," he says, when he later learns of her death. "She was a true femme fatale. She killed with a touch." Sebastian's beautiful sister Julia (Quick) meantime marries a crass politician, and Charles, who has become a painter, enters into an unhappy marriage of his own. Ten years later, the two of them meet again...
...Reagan's goals, Deaver emphasizes that voluntarism is not a surrogate for slashed federal programs. Says he: "It is something that should stand on its own merits." True enough, but inevitably there are those who see voluntarism as a Reagan antidote to the shocks of budget cutting, and therein lies a problem...