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...best things director Bill Rauch has going for him is the choice of the play. The beauty of the language and imagery of Lorca's tragic poem about a childless woman in a rural village contributes substantially to the impact of the play. And the play does have impact; it is doubtful that anyone could walk out of it without some strong opinion...
...Fosse's recounting of a true story that has attracted much journalistic attention and has already been done as a TV movie (Death of a Centerfold) lie in the way he defeats one's conventional expectations of his material. Mariel Hemingway's Dorothy is not the tragic tart that custom usually dictates in works of this kind. In an arrestingly straightforward, naturalistic performance, Hemingway suggests neither portents of doom nor a sense that she is self-destructively abandoning herself to a media fairy tale from which the only possible awakening is a rude one. If her physical...
Something in the painful irony of the team captain getting up and leading a pep rally moments after he has found out his girlfriend is pregnant strikes us as tragic. Yet it is precisely this piercing blend of pain and pity that gives the movie its real substance. Time after time we see this combination when Stefan's brother plans to go out and "get shitfaced" to forget his unemployment woes, and again when the coach eggs on his players by telling them "We re nothing more to them [the other team] than Dagos, Polacks, and Spicks." Undoubtedly, the movie...
...from consolidating its power beyond Beirut, there seemed to be no mission for the troops except as a symbolic presence. George Ball, who was Under Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, expresses the dilemma that such a situation creates: "God knows we might have learned from our tragic Viet Nam fiasco that, as a great power, we should deploy our troops only where they are vitally needed and it is clear they can be effectively used ... [otherwise] their bitter plight will exhibit not America's strength but its impotence...
...Tragic Sign-Off for a Golden Girl