Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considering his role. The script is well crafted by Writer Gelbart, working from a novel by Avery Corman. They give us a Supreme Being capable of admitting his mistakes (ostriches, for example, and avocados), taking pleasure in his successes ("That's profound," somebody says when God manifests his wisdom at one point; "Sometimes I get lucky," responds the deity). Called upon to prove his powers by changing the weather, he makes it rain only inside the skeptic's car, there being no point in spoiling everyone else's day. Asked about recent miracles, he lays claim only...
...characters who dominate A Life in the Theater are actors. John (Peter Evans) is young, zestful, ambitious, a Hamlet-to-be in his mind's eye. Robert (Ellis Rabb) is well into middle age, disenchanted, edgy about criticism, a Polonius of worldly wisdom who can carry a scene but has long since dropped any hope of ruling the stage. They play out scenes before imaginary audiences. With marvelous mimicry, Mamet conjures up parodistic echoes of past playwriting titans together with melodramatic fustian...
...committee's logical domain and this duplication of jurisdiction sometimes is beneficial. Second, liberals were concerned that the consolidation and limitation of subcommittee membership would reduce leadership opportunities for junior Democratic members, who tend to support liberal causes and hire liberal staff. Similarly, some Republicans questioned the political wisdom of limiting minority (Republican) staff representation just as they lost the White House...
Richard Brooks has made so many crude miscalculations in adapting Judith Ressner's bestselling novel to the screen that it is surprising that he mustered the wisdom to pick Diane Keaton as his star. In the role of Theresa Dunn, a Catholic schoolteacher who cruises singles bars at night, Keaton is everything the rest of this movie is not: provocative, affecting, scary. She creates a heroine who is at once sexual aggressor and victim, lady and tramp, and she relentlessly savages most pat notions about the nature of womanhood. It is a spectacularly daring performance whose meaning sadly eludes...
...bidden," and warned present and future White House aides to be on the alert for "red flags" of moral dilemmas that may arise while serving a President. Finally, Ehrlichman confessed: "I wasn't wise and I'm paying the price for that lack of wisdom. If I had any advice for my kids, it would be never, ever to surrender your moral judgments to anybody. That's something that's very personal that a man has to hang onto...