Word: againstness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rights, civil or otherwise, are not and should never be isolated absolutes. No court can ever protect anyone against the will of the majority. When sufficiently provoked, the majority will attack both the court and the minority and redress any such imbalance. I suspect this realization once prompted a Chief...
The term f/64 designates the smallest lens opening on cameras then used, the one that gave the greatest depth of focus and hence produced images that were sharp from foreground to background. To these photographers, f/64 also stood for "straight" photography, as against pictorialist fuzz. Instead of continuous tone, they...
Cimino submitted a script for the movie last fall to United Artists. The studio agreed to finance the picture for $7.5 million. "A really well-done western hadn't been made in a long time," explains U.A. Senior Vice President David Field. The studio's faith in Cimino...
"Soundlessly as I could, I slipped down from the desk and made my way on my toes to the daybed . . . My astonishment at what I'd overheard, my shame at the unpardonable breach of his trust, my relief at having escaped undiscovered-all that turned out to be nothing...
Buster Keaton's comic mask was nearly indistinguishable from the one most actors don for tragedy. To have seen a Keaton film is to remember his thin, straight mouth, its corners barely holding their own against gravity. The eyes are equally memorable; Spanish Poet Federico García Lorca...