Word: absentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That satisfying fantasy is sadly absent from Condominium-and so is the author's customary wryness. In its place is a self-righteousness that bombinates at needless length on environmental matters, foolishness and greed...
...murderer, who late in the film takes to the rooftops and opens fire on policemen with deadly accuracy, is not known at the outset, but the question of who he is is nowhere near as important as those of what he is and why he is there, elements absent from most conventional mysteries. If you like to pick up cleverly strewn clues and try to beat the heroes to the inevitable punch, you'll be disappointed, for Widerberg has something very different in mind, although he uses the mystery vehicle very well...
Although the performance of the field men was striking, the running events suffered from a conspicuous lack of Crimson talent. Due to the various exigencies of injuries and academic ocnflicts, such Harvard top guns as Jeff Campbell, Todd Hooks, Paul Organ, and Gary Schmidt were absent from the meet. The lack of a Harvard sprint relay team was an unfortunate result...
...class one girl lagged behind. She told me that as a child her parents were often absent from home and she had been brought up in the care of her elderly grandmother, who was schizophrenic and who hallucinated all the time. The girl herself, living in this environment, started having several imaginary playmates with whom she would converse. When her parents discovered this they took her from her grandmother and managed to 'train the voices away.' But the girl told me that now, whenever she is in any stressful situation, her imaginary playmates come back to her and talk...
...from being absent from the valedictory lecture, I was indeed present--but also mouselike quient, awe-struck by the continuities of history...