Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Bureau of Investigation has become an important fixture in the American psyche. Young white boys dream of growing up to be one of the Bureau's strong-jawed, clean-shaven Special Agents; car thieves and kidnappers fear its relentless pursuit; leftists and antiwar organizers wonder if Agents are tapping their telephones, reading their mail, infiltrating their meetings. Business, labor, and political leaders all fear and depend on the Bureau's wide information-gathering and dissemination powers...
...into that of a Miltonic Satan, a villain so persistent in his rebellion, so singleminded in his misconceived passion for revenge, that he steals part of our sympathy almost against our will. He is so capable a man that we sympathize with him over his lack of promotion--and wonder why he isn't able to engineer his own advancement, rather than others deaths. If he hadn't managed to survive Othello's unsuccessful vengeance, he might in death have looked like a twisted tragic hero. As it is, even after his last speech has sealed his lips and ended...
...gorgeous time. At 78, he had laid a lifetime of artistic training and personal experience to harvest creating what he calls "my little pictures." However harmless Mr. Feild thinks his watercolors, there is nothing insipid about their author. He possesses an enviable impressionability and gentle wonder. Most aspects of "the adventure of living" absorb Mr. Feild, and he has no hesitation to speak a piece of his mind...
...vision animating the series does not smack of modernity. The interplay between memory and imagination has removed the landscapes to a plane somewhere between the actual and the ideal. The pictures do not record fact--what the Lake Country really looks like--but rather the sense of mystery and wonder it produces. Mr. Feild has hewn every element in the vista to its most essential aspect. In this manner, the side of a cliff is painted as color emboldened by light; his nature is composed of remarkable harmonies. A spiritual sympathy for the Oriental arrangement of space lends the pictures...
...between the Johnny Walker and the club sandwiches as just another business duty. For all his anti-Establishment fighting, Kramer admits to being part of the vested interests. He's brought in his films underschedule, underbudget, and the statements they convey are so vague anyhow, that you wonder why they were ever "controversial...