Word: condone
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...Episcopal minister, not very successfully incognito as "H. Pearson," alighted from an airplane at Newark Airport and was reported in consultation with the child's parents. When they were reunited at the end of the week the Norfolkers had nothing to say to the Press. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the retired schoolmaster who paid $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh's money in a Bronx cemetery to someone who said he was the kidnappers' agent but who failed to secure the infant's return, went boating in Pelham Bay, capsized, got an icy ducking, went home to recover from the shock...
...close-and-personalized, and upended and trivialized, every newsmaker. Back then, the name Kinsey was a metaphor for the kicking down of America's bedroom doors and the cataloging of the dark secrets inside. The man, though, didn't emerge clearly from behind the dish and data. So Bill Condon's Kinsey, a smart social satire masquerading as a biopic, is less a gloss on a famous figure (like Ray or Che) and more a first glimpse at a modest revolutionary...
...Condon (Gods and Monsters) could have made a bolder, hornier film, but then it wouldn't have been true to the man and, especially, his time. The movie wants to entertain and educate, not leer, about people flummoxed by participating in a revolution they had meant only to calibrate, and at that it succeeds handsomely. Kinsey is like its hero's work: an enlightening lecture on a naughty subject, briskly delivered by a nice gent in a bow tie. --By Richard Corliss
...where pop filmmaking strokes are misappropriated incessantly to make up for a lack of depth in the subject material, Condon is not only using those techniques sparingly and effectively, but delving into classical Hollywood language and pulling out something that is totally unexpected...
Indeed, Kinsey is a film, in both its technique and content, about reinterpreting classical dialogues in attempt to understand them and maximize their discursive potentials. Whether it’s sex or continuity editing, Condon has his finger on the pulse of something...