Word: postscript
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cliff's frantic quest for some kind of fulfillment can awaken heaven's sleeping eye, then what in this world can? If Manhattan, coming at the end of the '70s, was Woody Allen's comment on that decade's besetting sin, self-absorption, then this is his concluding unscientific postscript on the besetting sin of the '80s, greed. At times the joints in the movie's carpentry are strained, at times the mood swings jarring. But they stir us from our comfortable stupor and vivify a true, moral, always acute and often hilarious meditation on the psychological economy...
...ambivalence about his message is particularly visible in this final scene which serves as a sort of bizarre postscript. Dap runs into the center of campus yelling "Wake up!" and inexplicably, the major factions come together. Presumably, Lee is instructing his audience to rise above the prejudice, infighting and blindness portrayed in the film. But it's a copout. Lee is trying to distance himself from the harshness of the world he has depicted. But the audience has been bombarded with animosity and anger for two relentless hours. Lee's attempt to depict some sort of reconciliation is too little...
...some seats in the California state senate. Small wonder that this year, as in every campaign since 1976, contenders are vying with one another to invent the most artful ways to beat the cap. Almost all direct mail to undecided Iowa voters, for example, comes with an awkward postscript asking for contributions. The rationale: fund-raising appeals are exempt from the state spending caps...
...what are you talking about? God is Derek Bok," countered another launderer, who wrote the disparaging postscript "Everyone knows that!" But apparently, not everyone does...
...happy endings seem promised here, but a final chapter and postscript provide several, including the awarding last year of Japan's most prestigious literary prize to Foumi for a book about the experiences of a mother with a handicapped child. And Noah has found a place, not only in real life but in the minds of those who, thanks to his parents, have come to know...