Word: torches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...show kindhearted audiences try hard to like, and the cast is already learning how to spread its limited talent thin. David Lewis does reliably unflappable matron Prune, waddling through both acts with his dignity intact even when his virtue has been lost. As the traditionally breathy and breasty torch singer, Tom Wells (Helza) has enough slink and alto in him to fill his shining jump-suit with credibility, and Mark Miller's One-Eyed Jack starts out as the most convincing and most spirited character of the whole, unsure crew...
...streets, then joyously rolled it up and down the steps of the National Assembly over and over again. Up the street, another group heaved rocks into the bookstore owned by one of Diem's brothers, tossed the books and religious objects into the gutter and put the torch to the pile of rubble. The people danced, chanted and shouted around the bonfire, which burned for hours...
...nastiest conflicts came to an abrupt if temporary halt. That was the four-year struggle between Moslems and Christians in Mindanao and the Sulu Islands in the south, where upwards of 3,000 have been killed, 500,000 injured and made homeless, and hundreds of villages put to the torch. As it turned out, martial law ended one conflict only to create another. Instead of fighting Christian settlers, the Moslems found themselves battling Philippine army troops who came searching for illegal weapons and for the leaders of the is lands' tiny but growing independence movement. Last week, as this...
...were hard to find. Similarly, the Right also saw how mistaken the liberals were, although often for the wrong reasons. What is important, however, is that many of Kennedy's advocates have learned from their failures, while conservatives (one thinks of Richard Nixon) chose to pick up Kennedy's torch long after its fire had stopped burning. We can learn from mistakes, and even though this is Wills's premise (perhaps even the whole raison d'etre of his book), it is a premise he prefers not to state where fifties Liberals are concerned...
...richest landowners. The situation produces heartbreaking images: Karl Oscar's father, crippled when a stone he had removed falls back on him, is carried home from the fields on the back of his stolid country wife (in long shot); or the little girl, lit by her mother's torch, wails with a burst stomach, next to a wooden bowl of porridge which she hungrily emptied. At the same time, even in the midst of their sorest travails. Troell's characters have a strength which allows for joyous conceits: the first shot of Kristina, lounging and playing on a swing while...