Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lameness of the dialogue--much of it in stylized rhyme--suggests another problem stemming from the script's unpopularity--bad translation. Though program notes refer the Jens Arup translation to a 1962 edition of Ibsen, the play's diction betrays all the self-conscious "translationese" of the turn of the century--even to the using the word "poesy" for "poetry" here and there. Faced with the need to make lines like "Can you not re-weld the link you tore asunder?" and "Am I to hallmark your complacency?" sound natural, director Holly Swartz takes the logical strategy of stylizing...
...Middle East weakened. All this happened not because American policy, as a matter of conscious choice, suddenly changed to Israel's disadvantage. Rather, it happened because events long in the making and policies compelled by those events suddenly became visible...
...conscious of trying to equalize the amenities in various houses, so that each one has a sense of something special," says Assistant Dean of the College Martha C. Gelter. Gelter also points to space in the Houses for common rooms, libraries, or special activities--such as dark rooms or pottery studios--as involving substantial financial commitments. Moreover, House masters receive a discretionary fund in the range of $12,000 annually to support activities such as open houses and special dinners...
...final scene, Gortchakov is crossing the fountain carrying a candle, just as the madman is preparing for a self-immolation ceremony atop a Roman sculpture, surrounded by a myriad of oglers and Biblical symbols. Such constant merging of the subconscious and conscious landscapes give the movie a pervasive sense of weirdness, as the scenes are organized around their symbolic and subconscious meanings, rather than a logical scheme. The result is cinematically dazzling, if, at times, difficult to watch because of disjointedness and the fact that very little actually happens...
...machete to his comfortable expectations about the Ape Man. Banish beefy Johnny Weissmuller, his predecessors and his heirs from your mind; rethink Jane; forget Boy; above all, abandon hope that Cheeta the chimp will skitter on to provide not only the movie's best acting but its only conscious comic relief as well. All of that was admittedly fun, as if the cast of a suburban sitcom had been dropped down in the African hinterlands, told to undress and act natural. But Burroughs, that dauntlessly prolific pop fictioneer, had something more important on his mind when he dreamed...