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When Abie Nathan heard that two masked gunmen had stolen $7,000 from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, the visiting Israeli pacifist and philanthropist immediately offered to replace the money. After news of his gift broke, Nathan discovered that a good deed, even in New York, does not go unrewarded. "The manager of my hotel dragged me out of my room and told me I was going to have their best suite," he recounts. Later a cabbie told him that the ride was free. "Imagine!" exclaimed Nathan. "A New York cabdriver...
...Rocky is fantasy, dangerous if taken too seriously. "We can all change." "We should be friends." To these simplistic but well-intentioned sentiments, someone in the front yelled out "Bullshit!" In fact, half of the audience decided that punches were better than words and walked out on Stallone's pacifist comments. Maybe I should write to Stallone: if he really means what he says as Rocky (and I think he does), perhaps he should put pacifism at the start and not the epilogue of Rocky...
...with sequences that keep playing in any film lover's imaginary screening room: the three-story family squabble in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); the hall-of- mirrors gunfight in The Lady from Shanghai (1948); the sinuous tracking shot that opens Touch of Evil (1958) with a bang; the magnificent pacifist battle scene in Chimes at Midnight/Falstaff (1966); and the Chinese-box structure of F for Fake (1975). The last title was appropriate, for Welles ended his directorial film career as he began it, with elegant sleight of hand at 24 frames per second...
...Witness, which is one of the most originally conceived and gracefully made suspense dramas of recent years, to work into edgy juxtaposition the representatives of two subcultures that are ordinarily mutually exclusive. Those dark figures in the fields are Amish, members of the plainest of the plain (and pacifist) religious sects. Their faith forbids them to use the paraphernalia of modern life. They work their Pennsylvania farms without benefit of electricity or the internal combustion engine, and as a result lead lives that seem to the frantic urban outsider idyllic, exemplary and very fragile. That is precisely what a young...
Animalen, however, was not the best choice to inaugurate the Ordway operatically, even though it reflects both the region's Scandinavian ethnic background and the Minnesota Opera's long-standing commitment to new works. More a politically pacifist, musically jejune cabaret than an opera, it concerns a convention of animals that are worried about the nuclear arms race. They lecture representatives from the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the importance of avoiding war, and later turn up at a peace conference in Vienna. There a romance between a Las Vegas-type American entertainer and a Soviet chanteuse ends...