Word: lighted
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...with no idea of just how murderously interesting the affair will turn out to be. The author here approaches the sinister elegance of her The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). She introduces fundamental issues -- salvation and sin, inspiration and insanity, free will and destiny -- through the medium of light but lethal comedy...
...challenge is not supply but distribution. The old centrally controlled system has crumbled, but no private market system has yet grown up in its place. An economic civil war rages between the republics and central state purchasing agents. The decrepit rail and road transportation system is grossly inefficient. In light of such fundamental weaknesses, critics of U.S. aid -- and some cynical Soviet citizens -- wonder if the relief will ever reach those who need it most...
...curious, for in some respects the film conscientiously compressed its source. Its plot has been faithfully rendered by screenwriter Michael Cristofer, and director Brian De Palma has succeeded in the more difficult task of finding a cinematic equivalent for the novelist's singular style. Using unconventional angles, lenses and light, he accomplishes on the screen what Wolfe achieved on the page through deliciously exaggerated dialogue and deadpan parody. De Palma lifts us out of banal realism but stops short of forcing surrealism's affectations upon...
...during some of the darkest days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Franklin Roosevelt in the White House at Christmas. He helped the President light the White House tree and in a short speech noted the curious intermingling of doubt and joy enveloping the world: "Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grownups share to the full their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before...
...getting swiftly at the vitals of letters or articles or presentations. But the habit of skimming is too easily carried over to creative reading. Few things are more rewarding than the way the mind can hover over a luminous paragraph or even a phrase, allowing it to light up the imagination. The way the mind transforms little markings on paper into images is one of the highest manifestations of human uniqueness...