Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestion that while America periodically drifts either right or left, it has rarely moved far or fast in either direction. And he will have to resign himself to at least two more years of coexistence with a liberal Senate, made all the more truculent by his efforts to transform...
Nothing could have saved Anderson's platitudinous script, but Douglas makes an admirable try. He manages to transform a wholly unsympathetic curmudgeon into an object of reluctant but genuine sympathy. Without his seasoned wizardry, Father would be nothing more than matinee melodrama presented by your favorite bio-nondegradable detergent...
...THIS strain of change against order, of time against space, Mizoguchi's camera motions occupy a special place. They too transform the relationships that bind people, but transform them spatially and visibly, not as a cut slicing them apart and then re-confronting them in an artificial drama. People in his compositions are points set a certain way in space; an emotion sets the camera in motion and the points twist around gradually, with all the anguish of a process occurring within reality, to a new dynamic which is again immediately transformed...
Many Arab and Western observers agreed last week that Hussein's position as King may be barely tenable. "The battle in Jordan is over, but Hussein's war has just begun," said an Israeli foreign ministry official. "He had a chance to transform the monarchy into a presidency and become the leader of a Palestinian republic, but what can he be King of now? He can never rule the Palestinians again in any meaningful sense-only the Bedouins." What if he agreed to permit the establishment of a Palestinian state within Jordan's borders? Skeptics doubted that...
...willingly and professionally dons new selves dictated by the convictions (whims) of the director. It becomes impossible to make a movie about repression, for any movie is repression. The auto-critique, the attenuated scenes of actors applying make-up, the unmoving shots held for four minutes at a time, transform Vent de L'est from movie into "movie": it details Godard-once again-confronting his form, denouncing its inadequacies, and translating the whole process into story...