Word: woodwarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mail from abroad, and he has been roughed up by the secret police. Now confined to the city of Leningrad, the Panovs said last week that they had gone on a hunger strike "to the end." In New York, an emergency committee, including Mike Nichols, Beverly Sills, Joanne Woodward and Hal Prince, has set out to use concern over the Panovs' fate to influence the Russians to release them. One obvious leverage point is the proposed 1974 visit of the Kirov Ballet to the U.S., which could be boycotted by an aroused public...
...movie beneath it has the solid ring of truth. The good wishes of summer may be summarized as a desire to feel, and express more intensely, love in its several varieties. The bad dreams of winter are the products of life's thoughtless intrusions on Rita Waiden (Joanne Woodward...
When Stewart Stern wrote Rachel, Rachel for Miss Woodward, he displayed a gift for biting dialogue and for transforming ordinary situations into sequences that carry a sharp sting of recognition. The same ability is repeated here, notably at a family funeral where the mourners try to hide their dislike of one another. Gilbert Gates directed I Never Sang for My Father, an underrated film that was also about family tensions. He shows himself once again to be an unpretentious director with a talent for worming himself to the emotional core of characters and scenes...
...Miss Woodward, there is no more authentic, believably feminine spirit on the screen today. In Summer Wishes she is brittle, cold, hysterical, but above all a woman who knows that she is lost and is in desperate search of herself. It is a lovely performance, almost matched by Balsam. Cannily holding back until he revisits Bastogne, where he fought in World War II-and where he was last fully alive-he shows us the center of a character deeper, more mysterious than we had imagined...
...Though Woodward said he believed the Post reporters' investigations had not interfered with individual liberties, Bernstein said that the lines of propriety are so fine that "unfortunately there are times when we overstep our bounds and cross over somebody's privacy...