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...this: the disturbing psychology, the terrifying moments, the obviously scientific atmosphere that fills bit by bit with a powerful spirituality? Bergman meets William Peter Blatty? Or Kubrick meets Kierkegaard? Actually, an academic search for allusions and comparisons will not stick here, because Solaris is an unsettling, spooky and unfamiliar world. Or put it this way: You know how it feels to come out of a movie that creates a compelling, comfortable reality and to return into the yapping, yawning crowd, step in the stale popcorn and walk into the unalluring street, still as noisy and hot as before? Solaris produces...
...concrete cubicle furnished with two tatami mats, a collapsible table and a toilet. Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's new quarters were a long way from the exquisitely landscaped home across town where he lived until his arrest last week. Yet the House of Detention was not wholly unfamiliar to "Kaku-san," as he was once affectionately nicknamed. In 1948, as a brash young member of the Japanese Diet, he spent three weeks there on charges stemming from a coal industry bribe scandal. His return in abject disgrace brought to full circle the most extraordinary political career in postwar...
...House aide and party workhorse for Truman, Stevenson, Kennedy, Johnson and Humphrey, got a floor pass and wandered out among the delegates while Hubert gave his short speech. "It's his last hurrah," thought Rowe to himself as he watched his friend on the podium and surveyed the unfamiliar faces around him. Then, he had another thought. "It is the last hurrah...
...bestseller The Making of a Surgeon, a startlingly candid behind-the-scenes account of his surgical apprenticeship at New York's Bellevue Hospital, and other popular books. Not one to miss an opportunity to publish, the articulate Litchfield, Minn., surgeon has now made the most of his unfamiliar position at the other end of the scalpel. In a new book titled Surgeon Under the Knife (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $8.95), Nolen tells an exciting life-and-death story-his own-and also provides useful insights that should help less informed surgery patients...
While the picture belongs to Brando, it is a nice question whether The Missouri Breaks is worth owning. Penn has peopled it with interesting, unfamiliar faces, and shot it with obviously strong feelings for the landscape and period detail of the 1880s. Yet the strong technique is enlisted in the service of a very modest irony that has become one of the basic banalities of the modern western. Once again, the works of nature are shown to have grandeur and innocence, while the works of man are everywhere perceived as squalid pollutants...