Word: unfold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pups, but director Carroll Ballard does not dish out family-restaurant-sized portions of easily-digestible nature. Instead, he treats his subject in a startlingly cool manner, devoid of treacly sentiment but shot through with a quiet, mystical passion, as in his magical The Black Stallion. Intensely beautiful images unfold one after the other, invoking that rarest of sensations nowadays un-pre-packaged wonder...
...students crowding House common rooms and the Union's parior room to watch the story of Toby and her three roommates unfold were quick to notice the discrepancies between life in her Holworthy Hall--which sported pink wallpaper--and life in the real college...
Occasionally the implied reaction to the intrusion proves less mild, less forgiving, in light of the events which unfold. "Monster Deal" ends in bitterness and anger when the female intruder all but kidnaps Karen, the teenage paper-delivery girl the narrator is attracted to; the two women go off laughingly together on Karen's Friday afternoon paper route and return dead drunk on Saturday morning, having obviated Karen's Friday night dinner date--the first--with the narrator. This story, too, begins familiarly...
...guests, a deluxe barge trip through the South of France is no Love Boat excursion. First Kate, the unloved one of the title, meets with foul play; then two of her relatives are killed. The squabbling survivors are effectively imprisoned on the barge while the investigation begins to unfold, and suspicions dart from person to person like fireflies on the canal...
...deal with lesbianism as an issue. The suddenness and irreversability of Lianna's decision make the fact that she is a lesbian almost incidental to the story. In contrast to other recent movies about homosexuals, for example Making Love, homosexuality is not central to the theme. Lianna would unfold no differently if its characters were heterosexual. Rather, it focuses on liberation and the price Lianna has to pay to be free...