Word: torments
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When Alexander Haig replaced H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman as President Nixon's Chief of Staff in May 1973, the Administration still had 14 months of torment ahead. At Haig's Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats probably will dwell on these questions about his shadowy backstage role during those days...
...Justice Department from asking federal judges to use busing as one means of achieving a better racial balance in public schools. The coalition backing the antibusing move was led by Helms. Asked he: "How long are we going to allow a federal bureaucracy in the Justice Department to torment the little children of America...
...slowly settling to form the horror he cannot confront. The struggle between Dysart and Alan (and their private bouts with their respective neuroses and psychoses) is at the core of Equus, giving the drama its chess-match tension as two fierce wills clash and two magnificent intellects trick and torment the vulnerable souls possessing them. Sadism and compassion feed on each other as Dysart and Alan peer, with frightening perception, into one another's heart of darkness, at once attracted and repelled by what they...
This skittery manner has worked for Di rector Roeg in the past, notably in Don 't Look Now, but it does not really suit a study in obsessional behavior. As anyone who has ever suffered that peculiar form of mental torment knows, it tends to fo cus the mind narrowly and dully, rather as an aching tooth does, permitting it few enlivening leaps or juxtapositions of the sort this movie keeps attempting...
...asserts the need to end human suffering; on the other, he has a fierce desire to sprint blindly into the open arms of a beautiful woman. With no resolution of this dilemma at hand, and unable to make a choice and stick to it, Allen muddles through his inner torment. He turns his attention from suffering to death and from death to all his old themes: sex, religion, beauty, driving, California and cooking. It's predictable comedy the worst kind. Allen seems to be questioning both the limits to his own talent (which once seemed limitless) and the scope...