Word: tical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart of the play, Chamberlain captures the self-lacerating torment of Shannon, and McGuire the innate goodness of Hannah, but both are some what out of their depth where the play itself becomes deeper in certain late scenes and speeches that border on mys tical transcendence...
...became a top scholar and captain of the basketball team at the University of Arizona. To put himself through the university law school, he played pro basketball for two years ("He has a basketball player's elbows," says a Congressman, referring to Mo's aggressive poli tical tactics). Udall practiced law in Tucson until his older brother Stewart gave up his congressional seat to become President Kennedy's Secretary of the Interior. Then, in a 1961 special election, Mo replaced Stewart...
...Cries and Whispers is perfect, and no one is permitted to be supreme. Bergman orchestrates them scrupulously, so that the film is the very definition of flawless ensemble playing. Kari Sylwan, the only one of the quar tet unfamiliar from previous Bergman films, gives Anna a strange, almost mys tical sense of strength. Liv Ullmann's Maria is that rare creation, a vacuous creature of substance. This seeming paradox is one excellent measure of Berg man's talent, and Miss Ullmann...
Taken merely as a contrived symbol, the star would be only a bit of mys- tical sleight of hand, but Rosenzweig clearly meant it to be a demonstration of both ontological truth and an ethnic imperative. The Jews, he says, have been elected to grasp intuitively this intimate structure of reality. By their blood inheritance of God's ancient Covenant with Abraham, the Jews have the truth in as rich abundance as man is allowed-if they want it. For Judaism is at the very heart of the star, its burning center. Christianity forms the "rays" of the star...