Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost sight of the facts, particularly in the long and losing battle against the Seabrook, N.H. plant. Meltdown at Montague proves valuable, then, simply because it is the least hysterical and most readable factual account of nuclear power today. While the book most definitely possesses an anti-nuke tone, the reader is hard-pressed to find dogma. The closing pages suggest that because nuclear power plants are here to stay, we must perfect emergency plans to minimize the damage of a possible meltdown. If the idea of a radioactive plume blown eastward over Boston from Montague doesn't make...
...River. An extraordinary effort from Jean Renoir--one of the most daring films of his career, a lyrical, colorful examination of East meets West, in which he also met ol' Satty Ray, who gave him a hand in the shooting. The tone has been correctly identified as ironic, but the director is involved, not detached, and this gives the film a richness of feeling and intelligence that represents the director well. Incidentally, this film will be screened tonight (Thursday) at Harvard-Epworth Church, just a ways up Mass Avenue and certainly the worthiest film organization in the area...
...film marks the graceful directing debut of Matthew Robbins, who, with partner Hal Barwood, wrote the scripts for The Sugarland Express and The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars. Corvette Summer shares the earlier films' jaunty, all-American tone. The hero is a recent high school grad, Kenny (Mark Hamill), who leaves home for Vegas after his prized Stingray is stolen. While chasing down the car, he meets up with a prattling, fledgling hooker (Annie Potts) who initiates him into sex. Suffice it to say that love and virtue eventually triumph over pimps and car thieves...
...mystery to most people what Proposition 13 is all about," he said in a serious tone. "It isn't just that people don't like to pay taxes, but their taxes aren't being spent coherently. State governments and local governments are terribly loose and fragmented...
...century, relies on a set of givens that has never really changed. Give 'em a couple of big production numbers, a whole lot of dancing, some love and a few funny lines, and they'll go home happy. Unless the book waxes trite beyond belief or the singers are tone-deaf, what you usually need in a musical is a lot of money and the kind of house-filling draw no producer can resist...