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...child." In this vein, you could talk about The Mother and the Whore as if it were an ethical statement about "purification" or "self-knowledge." But the total effect of the film is to make this sort of thinking seem helplessly inadequate. Eustache gives you all the pieces to construct a moralizing interpretation of the film, but saps your will to put them all together...
...youngsters can also learn the art of boatbuilding while they watch skilled workmen construct a full-size craft...
...know how widespread this provocation was or how it would have gone if I had not been expelled from the Soviet Union. Apparently the aim was to arrest some Russian emigres from the West who were visiting Prague and to construct around them a criminal case that would have demonstrated that I had links with emigre organizations. "Links with the outside" is a beloved theme song of Soviet propaganda...
Baaron B. Pittenger Jr., associate director of the Department of Athletics, said yesterday that the University does not plan to construct a large number of tennis courts in the near future, because of a lack of available land...
From several standpoints, nuclear power seems an ideal answer to the continuing energy problem in the U.S. For utilities, it makes economic sense to construct plants that use heat from splitting atoms of uranium to spin turbines that generate electric power. Though the average plant costs 10% to 30% more to build than one that burns coal or oil, operating costs are much lower. Nuclear plants are also relatively kind to the environment. They discharge hot water that can harm aquatic life and change the characteristics of lakes; but they cause no air pollution, no spills at sea, no strip...