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...Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot...
...director, Schrader is lucky to have three strong men for his leading roles. Kotto, in particular, gives depth and an odd, worldly-wise dignity to his role as a man who is not as smart as he thinks he is, though in some ways is much wiser than he admits even to himself. None of them, though, gets as much help from Schrader as they could use. He has trouble finding the heart of a scene, trouble keeping the overall tone and tension of his film consistent. There is a power in this story he simply does not realize. Even...
...Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot...
Editorials hailed him as "a luminous figure, a celebrated Communist leader, a passionate patriot, wise chief of party and state." Broadcasters saluted his "creativity of exceptional value in philosophy, scientific socialism, political economy, history, education, science and culture." In other encomiums, he appeared variously as still "the first peasant among peasants" and a fellow who was "born a peasant, became a worker and is now an intellectual...
NONFICTION 1. The Complete Book of Running, Fixx (2) 2. All Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot (1) 3. The Book of Lists, Wallechinsky, L. & A. Wallace (3) 4. The Second Ring of Power, Castaneda (4) 5. Gnomes, Huygen & Poortvliet (6) 6. Looking Out for # 1, Ringer (9) 7. An Autobiography, Christie (10) 8. Life Is a Banquet, Russell with Chase 9. The Amityville Horror, Anson (7) 10. My Mother/My Self, Friday