Word: sync
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...film experiment as dry as the dust on a neglected library shelf turns out to be a spectacular juggling act: of documentary and fiction, analysis and creativity, determinism and free will, comedy and tragedy, the past and the present. The three jugglers-Gruault, Resnais and Laborit-work in perfect sync, perhaps because their own pasts have prepared them for this challenge. Gruault's scripts have often described characters dominated by their emotions or by the whim of the historical moment. And nothing could be more natural than that Resnais, whose films have played with the real and imagined past...
...BUDGET. Greenspan: The budget is severely out of sync. Reagan's program would hold federal revenues to less than 21% of G.N.P. in 1985. Carter's proposal accepts a huge rise in the tax burden to nearly 24% of G.N.P. This is a turning point in American history; unless we choke off budget growth, we cannot rebuild the economy...
...people picture." It is an action movie whose subject is machines, and the sophisticated killing ma chine man could become. The hardware is the star here: the souped-up Chevies and demon motorcycles, captured by Miller's supple, fender-level camera - one machine in sync with another. With his instinct and craft, Miller has provided more autosuggestive violence on a $1 million budget than The Blues Brothers did with half the Chicago police force and $30 million...
...White House admits that Jimmy Carter may have drifted out of touch with some economic realities by being cooped up in the Rose Garden because of the hostages in Iran. That was why his speech in Ohio about "turning the tide" seemed out of sync with the alarming slide into recession...