Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient. A giant dam now irrigates the rolling grainlands below Shush, the ancient capital of the Elamites, where Daniel had his second vision...
...neither probable nor particularly suspenseful-and Dirk Bogarde, as the father, is competent in a stereotype part. But everything else about Our Mother's House is splendid. Producer-Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) keeps his camera close to his subjects, frequently narrowing the field of vision to a telling detail-a hand on a sleeve, a pouring pitcher, a pair of eyes-again and again creating the effect of a sequence of stunning stills that build and sustain the mood. The children, though, are Clayton's triumph. Each of them is such an accomplished scene stealer...
...wonder is that Nelly Sachs could summon up a poetic vision that resolutely exorcised bitterness...
...general manager, Dick O'Connell, who was elevated to that post in 1965, could see as well as anybody what was wrong with the team. He and his predecessor, Mike Higgins, had a vision of the sort of club they wanted to build. A young, enthusiastic team, with powerful hitting, speed, hustle, solid defense, intelligence and a winning attitude. In the process of building it, the Red Sox management looked like a bunch of idiots...
Times of National Educational Tele vision programs vary. Check local listings...