Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's pace is more selective than when he is in Washington, enabling him to put off some things until tomorrow that might have had to be done today in White House East. And much of the Washington trivia that nibbles at a President's hours is absent: no poster babies, cotton queens or service awards to worry about...
...beginning of the decade, federal authorities merely nodded while the mobsters nibbled away at the country. Besides, coordination among law-enforcement agencies at all levels is frequently weak or totally absent. Even when pressure is applied vigorously, resulting in arrests and convictions, LCN can quickly fill personnel gaps...
Marker is especially careful not to integrate Koumiko and the city whenever the two come in direct contact. Koumiko is isolated when she is walking, behind a train window when she looks at the countryside, or present on the soundtrack but absent from the screen. In one sequence, we see Koumiko walking down a street next to a man whose face is obscured by a mirror he is carrying. Koumiko herself is not reflected in the mirror. She repeatedly looks to her right, then turns her head to see the same view in the mirror. As she does...
...only fellow leaders who share his tough orthodox beliefs in the need for discipline and Communist unity as well as common borders with Poland. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev showed up; so did Czechoslovakia's Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who last April replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek. But absent was the most inflexible hard-liner of them all: East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht. Pleading illness, Ulbricht stayed home and sent Premier Willi Stoph in his place...
...pretty patterns which Ballard was allowed to establish in True Grit are absent in The Wild Bunch since, unlike the Hathaway film, Sam Peckinpah has directed half to three-quarters of this epic in close-shot. The major exception to this rule of composition comes in the slow-motion orgies of violence which punctuate the film at various crucial points...