Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This all-the-world's-a-stage approach to affairs of state comes at a rather delicate time. We have just been assaulted not only by a cascade of Washington-power books but also by their movie and television adaptations. Fiction and truth seem to blend. Robert Chartrand, the Library of Congress's top information-systems scientist, says that even in his orderly mind, dedicated to quick retrieval of facts, there is difficulty sorting out what is real...
...living the truth...
...experience with Roger Daltrey in the forgettable film version of The Who's rock opera Tommy should have taught him that the formula does not necessarily work. A bomb is a bomb is a bomb, and all of Daltrey's striking looks and blonde curls could not hide the truth. Had Daltrey proven to be as great a drawing power on the silver screen as he had been on the concert stage, Russell could have at least consoled himself by thumbing through the box office receipts while he burned the critics' pans. Although Tommy did enjoy some limited early commercial...
...Niemans did not intend to pay Kissinger tribute they should have placed him in an adversary relationship where representatives of the other sides could have helped bring out the truth. The Nieman Foundation was set up to "elevate and promote the standards of journalism." We hope that such an ideal, rather than an eclectic affection for power, guides the foundation's future...
...written, all the characters are relatively wooden, and to push beyond stereotype requires unusual subtlety and conviction. Of the performers in this production, Eda Rabinovitz alone (as the mother) plays her part from the inside out. She makes the events real by the truth of the characterization rather than the other way round...