Word: screening
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...much of the credit for the scenes the director and editors so carefully craft has to go to the actors. The entire cast gives strong performances, but Ford stands out. Because of Ford's characteristic calm in nearly all his other movies (and supposedly off-screen, too) he is an excellent choice for Sabich. The moments when Sabich actually does get frustrated, or lose control, or yell, contrast powerfully with his character's general self-restraint. When Sabich discovers the county medical examiner is falsifying records, for example, his voice rises and shakes. A single tear trickles slowly down...
...billion on computers and telecommunications in the past five years. Its advanced communications have enabled the bank to remain the world's top dealer in foreign currencies. The firm also operates the world's largest network of automated teller machines and has introduced such innovations as the touch- tone screen. The bank is currently linking its 2,000 ATMs worldwide, so travelers in, say, Singapore can tap their accounts in New York City or Buenos Aires. With a reach like that, Citicorp will remain a major player on the world banking stage...
That prospect inspired jubilation among right-wingers, who immediately began pressuring George Bush to fill the vacancy with a conservative. "This is a seminal event in the return of the rule of law," exulted Michael Carvin, a former Justice Department official who helped screen judicial candidates for Ronald Reagan. "If there is anyone who represents the Warren Court's judicial activism, it is Brennan. He is the intellectual leader on the left of the court. Some important cases will go the other way when he is replaced...
Those earnest souls who passed the early decades of this once dangerous, vulnerable actor's career awaiting his Hamlet are doubtless going to be dismayed that his first sustained screen appearance since becoming eligible for Social Security is not in something sort of Lear-ish. But The Freshman is no small thing. Well, actually, it is a small thing. But to a moviegoer deafened by and reeling from the rolling barrage laid down by the early summer's big box-office guns, the determined modesty, the unsprung affability of Andrew Bergman's comedy are precisely what make it treasurable...
...blonds are dangerous, the detectives are disillusioned, and the action is steamy: made-for-TV film-noir thrillers are heating up the home screen and grabbing the ratings...