Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters whose flair infects the film. Inventive camerawork-pixillation, fantasy sequences, beautiful cutting-establishes the characters and their Panachethrough their appearances-and simultaneously exposes their shallowness, the characters, the limitations of their flair. The film, through its characters, maintains the ideal balance between being moving and shallow, romantic and absurd-not by attacking romanticism, but by showing its limits...
...past president of the American College Health Association, is perfectly prepared to view the peaceful occupation of a building as "an honest confrontation with intellectual honesty and moral force." But Dr. Osborne, a Tufts administrator whose son was among 174 students arrested at Harvard, says that "nonnegotiable demands are absurd. When the administration doesn't capitulate, the students think that they can do anything they want, including sacking the files." No small group, he says, "has the right to be coercive and deny access to jobs or classes." Even while defending her son, Laura Hobson says: "Means shape ends...
...safely through U.S. courts. This is an ironic state of affairs, since People could easily be interpreted as a satire on the current vogue for explicit cinematic sexuality. Anyone who watched the two kids coupling on a balustrade or in a tree in Yellow will surely appreciate the absurd acrobatics of the scene in the train toilet. Writer-Director Henning Carlsen often dwells too long on a single joke or effect, and it might be argued that he shrewdly exploits permissiveness while satirizing it, but such reservations do nothing to diminish People's raucous vitality. After the sociological tedium...
...anyone who has seen Levin play once in his four seasons at Harvard, the question was absurd. Levin plays tennis well, but he plays it strictly for enjoyment...
...this indecision seems absurd from the Crimson's perspective. Harvard beat both B.U. and Dartmouth and compiled the best record in New England competition, but the selection committee has decided to take only the EIBL champion into the playoffs...