Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Organizer. In my book, this is the best political film ever made. Done by an obscure Italian director in the early 1960s, The Organizer, portrays the birth of working class organization in a small suburb of Turin around the turn of the century. Presenting an intensely vivid but unsentimental portrait of oppression, the film conveys a unique sense of what it's like for people trapped in social processes who begin to take their fate into their own hands. The director raises all of the right questions about working class militancy--the problems of racism, sexism, and sectional divisions within...
...opposite, I felt. In his own way, he was telling a private piece of the long family story. The son of strong, lovable, amusing parents (rooted in a place and confident there) and the sibling of vivid and irreverent juniors, he is trained to expect equal fare from the world. He can't often get it, but he's trained to go on trying-as courteous son; tried but patient older brother; as Christian fellow creature; and as lifelong veteran of small-town culture, which requires a sophistication of manners at least the equivalent of manners at Versailles...
Playwright Charles Fuller has paid his debt to Weaver handsomely by fleshing out the narrative with vivid character portraits and pungent humor. The strongest portrayal, by Douglas Turner Ward, is that of Sergeant Major Mingo Saunders. A 25-year veteran, Saunders has a passion for the regular army in the same way that a priest or an artist is called to his vocation. Ward sensitively conveys the intimate, though difficult burden of an NCO, who must understand the hurts and fears of his men, yet main tain a spit-and-polish discipline to steel each soldier for the fierce ordeal...
Althea chronicles the divorce of Muldoon-Adam from Fantasy-Eve. A slow divorce--it spans the late 1950s through 1973. It's a long book that moves as slowly and richly as a pageant, sometimes presenting vivid tableaus such as Muldoon's chance meeting with Norma after years apart--he no longer recognizes the dope-smoking, guerilla-garbed literary lioness Norma has become...
Dust settles on most national treasures. Theaters that were vivid and inspiriting in their legendary youth subside into enervating routines in middle age. Perhaps the same show must not go on for too long...