Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years after their release, Godard films become museum pieces. His innovations are adopted by other film makers, who (like Haskell Wexler in the kinetic Medium Cool) either put his techniques to better dramatic use or (like Agnes Varda in the festival's ludicrous Lions Love) sink beneath the weight of aimless stylistic decoration. Le Go/ Savoir features Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto sitting around a TV studio engaging in a lot of Mickey Mouse debate about linguistics and mouthing doses of Godard's peculiar politics (the FBI had Bobby Kennedy shot) and aesthetics...
...WATERS are brown, our skies are sulphurous, our fields devoured, and our people's screams barely audible beneath the tentacles of city traffic. Outside the project walls erected by the affluent, there is a curious peace of mind. At the same time, the churches are retrenching, the bureaucracies reexamining, armies resuming, bigots resurging, and political ghosts restalking...
Everett Dirksen, did not, of course, quite fit the mold. He took many diverse positions in his long career. Last week the postwar pattern of conservatism was all but broken. The Senate's 43 Republicans gathered beneath the ornate crystal chandeliers of the G.O.P. Conference Room to elect Dirksen's successor as minority leader. They chose Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, 68, a moderate liberal of the Eastern Establishment. Then, three hours later, the same band of G.O.P. Senators who accomplished that feat combined to give Scott's old job as assistant minority leader to Michigan...
...gave us a grandmotherly George Washington, here portrays a burnt-cork-face minstrel in reverse. This is a handsome black musician masked, glassed, in a transparent nightmare of snow white. The score before him is withered moonlight. The snakes who wove a raft to carry him have fled away beneath the sea. He holds his flute still, as a drowning man clutches a straw. There could be no greater gulf than that which separates Stuart's Flautist from the Black King painted by Hieronymus Bosch. The King is Caspar, the Moorish monarch and one of the Three Magi...
There was a press release from Pennsylvania, quoting Red and Blue coach Jim Tupenny as having said incredibly slanderous things about McCurdy's squad Beneath it was an interview with Tupenny. allegedly staged by McCurdy. in which the Penn coach needled the Crimson harriers individually. And off to the left was a large white placard with a limerick on it. attesting to Penn's hubris, and the inevitable punishment which Harvard would wreak upon...