Word: ture
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the film, the sense persists that May lost track of what she had wanted to do. Small points and moments are worried past endurance, while the main plot wanders. Watching the pic ture is an unsettling and eventually op pressive experience, like observing a person having a nervous breakdown...
...whether his rage might extend to her. When he saw her to safe ty before turning to make his last stand against the biplanes, it was a definitive revelation of character, a supremely touching act. In the new film it has been established that he is one of na ture's noblemen, and will certainly save her. The movie's end has nothing like the power of the first version's climax, with its sudden resolution of conflicting emotions about...
...trouble with The Hero is that it has so little going for it, not even a ma ture satirical point of view. It is the kind of morality fable that a Thurber might have conceived. Menotti has dealt with it as though he were writing for Nor man Lear...
Bark and Catfish Skin. Japanese swords have virtually no parallels in Western art. Only one shape in our cul ture seems to rhyme with the strict parabolas of a tachi's profile: Brancusi's Bird in Flight, with its soaring curvature, immaculate surface and absolute finality of line. The resemblance is not merely formal. Just as the abstract contour of the Bird is rich with allusions to nature, so the blade contains landscapes...
...newspaper described, but it did until sometime last year. Citi bank, the second largest U.S. bank, and Chase, the third largest, really had been on the list. And the fact that two such giants could have been deemed in need of extra regulatory attention illustrates the pervasive na ture of some genuine troubles in the nation's banking system. Collectively, the 14,600 U.S. commercial banks are writing off a record number of loans as uncollectible bad debts - an estimated $3 billion for 1975, or 50% more than in 1974 and triple the loan losses of 1973. That write...