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They don't slip down the gullet like meringue, but Potemkin and The Last Laugh are two of the Greatest Movies Ever Made, the former maybe The Greatest. Ah yes, the dopes will walk by them, on their way to see Georgina Spelvin wrassle snakes, but as far as film goes you can't beat these. When Potemkin dropped itself on the world in 1925, it was a revolution--it changed the art of making motion pictures and watching them. It was shocking in form and substance, nobody had created anything quite like it before, and it remains probably...
...order to desegregate since 1971, 43 of the city's 96 elementary schools have still not met the court's standards. Another California court ordered the Los Angeles schools to desegregate five years ago, but the issue has been under appeal ever since. Says School Board Member Georgina Hardy: "Basically, there's no real desire on the part of anyone-black, white or Chicane-to move from their schools...
During the course of the play we learn that the difference between the outlaw and the British imperialists is one of means rather than end--what the one accomplishes through atrocity and terror the other gains through morality and guilt. As Georgina explains to Basho...
Bond's point, though, is that tyrants become the victims of their own philosophies. "People who raise ghosts become haunted," he has Basho say, none too subtly. By the end of Narrow Road, Shogo is a dismembered corpse and Georgina is locked in the madness of her own sexual fantasies...
...quality of the acting varies from the high level of Rebecca Goldman's taut portrayal of the schizophrenic Georgina and Ed Baran's glassy-eyed baby-talking Commodore to the awkward self-consciousness of some of the bit players. Demetrious Athens plays a detached and rather pedantic Basho and Rick Hagan, as Kiro, and Thomas Nolan, as Shogo, both have a lot of stage presence but their speaking voices lack variety of intonation...