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Senator Simpson thinks Watt will keep his job as long as he wants it. But he understands his friend's central problem: inflexibility of almost heroic proportions. "He has never been in [electoral] politics," Simpson explains. "He has never been through the forging process when you're getting your hide torn off, and you have something you really believe in. He has never learned how you compromise on an issue without compromising yourself...
...Roger Duchesne) and written without a wasted word or gesture, is the product of another time and place: Paris, 1955. It was a period when French cineastes noted that two things they admired, American genre movies and existential philosophy, had one thing in common: an admiration for the heroic figure who defined himself and his code of personal honor by plain action rather than fancy words. Writer-Director Melville (who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, borrowed his nom de screen from his favorite American novelist, and died in 1973) was then very much a cantankerous outsider in the world...
...taken on the sports Establishment, the federal regulatory bureaucracy, the old-money yachting elite, the networks and, perhaps most daunting, his own exacting demands of himself, ponders a moment when asked who he really is and dredges up yet another heroic memory...
...Shakespeare's. With in its emotional universe are found heroic legends and pathetic domestic tragedies, as well as broad comic treatments of such eternal human vagaries as drunkenness and adultery. Immediately accessible on the level of mime, it is nevertheless highly sophisticated, yielding its ultimate secrets- and thus pleasures- to those who have taken the time to study it. Its name once connoted "outlandish" or "eccentric," yet it literally means song-dance-skill. It is Kabuki...
...depresses me." Yet they go on doing the best that they can. The tedious side of policework rarely figures in TV serials or bestselling novels. Midnights offers a healthy antidote to all those shoot-'em-ups, a reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic . -By Paul Gray