Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Maurice Pialat (Loulou, A Nos Amours) and Screenwriter Catherine Breillat know that police work is more talk than action, and they allow the third-degree sessions to wear down the viewer as well the suspect. The cumulative effect, though, is bracing. Police is a stark vision of a forlorn specialist, doomed to be brilliant at his job. Depardieu...
...Howard Beach incident, by a President eager to orchestrate the deracination of the legislative gains of the 1960s, and by self-serving Black conservative academicians who plead for cessation of all civil rights activity, our nation must look back in time to King's accomplishments and his vision...
Finally, and most significantly, we need to remember King for his vision. He dreamed of a society free of racism and intolerance. He hoped that the struggles of the 1960s would demonstrate the moral turpitude of prejudice. By witnessing the violent white reaction to his non-violent demonstrations, Americans, King surmised, would learn from history and would renounce racism. For a brief time during the exuberant days of civil rights triumphs, it appeared that his dream could be realized...
...little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." If we hope to fulfill his dream, if we want to counteract the conservative backlash that threatens our nation today, we must remember what King has taught us and follow his lead. Failure to recall his struggles and his vision will cause us to plummet inexorably to the base of the mountain, which next time we will have to ascend without his guidance...
...Edible Woman, for example, feels so cannibalized by the people in her life that she serves her fiance a bride made of sponge cake and icing, then flees from the altar. Gone too is Atwood's allegorizing. In last year's The Handmaid's Tale she offered a vision of America transformed into a Fundamentalist Christian theocracy...