Word: absentes
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...undercult classic David Holtzman's Diary, approached the problem of remaking Breathless, updating it and resetting it in Los Angeles, the center of everything Godard was subverting. Indeed the movie never entirely shakes off its self-consciousness. But the stale, cynical air that attends most remakes is absent here. Carson knows how to write out of the side of his mouth, and McBride knows how to stage both action and eroticism; their work has a drive and energy that derive from conviction and, perhaps, good old American know-how. Best of all, the film makers have found in Richard...
...Grief fills the room up of my absent child,/ Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,/ . . . Remembers me of all his gracious parts,/ Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form...
...terribly scattered. The paragraphing, which appears to have been done by a food professor rather than a word professor, is a symptom of the utter absence of any organizing ideas beyond the examples themselves: Presentation here sadly mirrors preconception, both of them so careless as to be virtually absent. This might slip by with a D-, if the "author" has had bad lighting and good luck working...
...Lion is especially rich in historical and social contexts. There are no loud revisionist notes in Manchester's harmonious reorchestration of his subject's first 58 years. He is the familiar Winnie who loved soldiering, political argument, the best wines and good English. He was a frequently absent though apparently constant husband to Clementine Hozier, whom he wed in 1908. The sexual adventurers in the family were his father and, especially, his mother, American-born
...added that many of the legislators who opposed the move were simply afraid of an unregulated camera in the chamber, which could pick up legislators who were sleeping, not paying attention, or absent. "The camera has a tendency to editorialize," he admitted...