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...bullying nor appeasement. While not forgetting the differences between the two great powers, he pointed to the number of times they had successfully cooperated in the past. Said Nixon in reply: "The courage of the Russian people, who generation after generation have defended this city from invaders, makes this vivid point: the only way to enter Moscow is to enter it in peace." From then on, the summit was all business, conducted quietly and secretly within the Kremlin...
Familiar Backsides. Though the sex would be considered tame enough by TV audiences in some European countries, it is far more vivid than anything seen on home screens in America. The blonde playgirl in Apt. Six is usually glimpsed half nude, sometimes with nipples showing beneath a see-through blouse. A husband runs his hand under his wife's dress in one episode, and in another, one of the two homosexuals in Apt. Five walks on camera in bikini briefs. Full frontal nudity is out, but both female and male backsides are a familiar sight...
...while between Benoit and the family of the deceased boy, and as a consequence the film becomes slightly un raveled before it reaches its climax. The movie is also overrich in incidents, since Jutra and Perron are too anxious to cram everything in. There is an excess of vivid but extraneous vignettes of village life, like the Christmas sleigh ride of the dour mineowner distributing stockings full of cheap candy to the poor children along the main street. Yet in spite of its unfixed perspective, My Uncle Antoine is indelible, the best chronicle of a coming of age since Truffaut...
...Kandinsky, all objects were endowed with life (an animistic idea that Miro later developed brilliantly). This aliveness, as English Critic Paul Overy put it in a recent study of Kandinsky, "interacted with our own aliveness, thus creating reality." One can feel its pressure, vivid and tremulous, in the darting lines and patches of color beneath which a landscape is forming in No. 160b. (Improvisation 28), 1912, no less than in the cooler, more architectural forms of the great demonstration pieces, like Composition 8, No. 260, 1923, painted after he moved to the Bauhaus in Weimar to teach...
...Vivid Portrait. The city and the decade provide a nostalgic paradox that has fascinated novelists, scholars and citizens from Christopher Isherwood and Hannah Arendt to the long lines currently waiting to see Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. Otto Friedrich has combined history and cultural journalism to produce the most vivid portrait of the period yet written. Weaving back and forth in time and place between Marlene Dietrich and Joseph Goebbels, between Berlin and Hollywood, between 1920 memoirs and 1971 interviews, the author, who is a former managing editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now a TIME senior editor, has recreated...