Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a "slice-of-life" film invites artificiality and self-conscious artiness. The Connection tries to avoid this problem by incorporating the film-making process into the film itself. The two cameramen join in the action and the talk. They are making an avant-garde documentary about drug addiction; they want to be "natural...
...force her crippled daughter Laura to be a southern belle, who shouts continually at her son Tom and refuses to let him write poetry in the house. On the other hand, the audience must believe that Amanda loves her children deeply, that she is determined only that they avoid their parents' mistakes. When she tells Tom that "I'm old and don't matter," it must be evident how sincerely she means what she says and yet how woefully it contradicts her vanity...
...change if the man at the center of the Russian power "onion" succumbed, is the most difficult to answer. Would control over the civilian population loosen to show the good intentions of the new leaders while they engaged in the ruthless struggle for supremacy, or would discipline tighten to avoid disorders...
...removal from the Dutch line of succession (TIME, Feb. 14). Now, in a country precariously balanced between Protestants and Roman Catholics, the crisis flared up again when the pair flew from Paris on to Rome for an audience with Pope Paul VI. The meeting was held in secret to avoid straining the good relations between the Vatican and The Netherlands. But the story leaked out; so, against the Pope's wishes, did a photograph. While the Dutch government and the royal palace were still vigorously denying the story, the picture of the Pope with the couple arrived by wirephoto...
...cigarette smoking ever be entirely safe? Drs. Wynder and Hoffmann said they doubted it. They thought the only way to avoid the risks of lung cancer from smoking was not to smoke. But, they conceded: "Man may not always be willing or able to accomplish this objective." Therefore they urged more research toward producing "less hazardous" smoking products. "Considerable progress has been and is being made," they concluded. "Further advances are certainly feasible...