Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that opens the film and the only slightly macabre humor throughout are very funny: this is De Palma being himself), but these moments are also evasive. The only reason they are so essential in the first place is that the violence in the film is not set in a context of characterization. The acts of characters in a Hitchcock film are at least as ghastly as in Sisters, but the portrayal runs deeper. In Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951, written by Raymond Chandler) Robert Walker plays a strange, unbalanced character who is frightening because he seems so real...
...people of South Viet-Nam will be able to force Thieu out of office in a peaceful way. If General Thieu continues to violate the Agreement, the people of Viet-Nam will continue armed resistance. Under such a situation, the U.S. re-intervention would be purely agression in the context of the peace Agreement...
...traditional to recognize ordinary human beings as the general possessors of rights by virtue of the fact that not only do they have purposes, but also that they have rationality. Rationality in this context means the capacity and disposition not only to pursue ends but to form judgments about the world and about our ends. It is of the nature of judgments that they are universal in form...
...schematic figures, the jammed and frontally flattened space-is as important to a Dubuffet like Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle as perspective space is in a Perugino. Dubuffet used these techniques deliberately to discover how ludicrous, violent or absurd an image a given set of conventions could carry within the context of modern painting. His drawing is stylish to the point of mannerism. Indeed his pictures depend on that context more than his admirers will allow. Madmen understand the art of the mad; children, child art. But when an eminently rational adult, whose career as an artist began when...
...black friend of mine then hissed. Kael got upset, and asked for the objection to be verbalized. So another friend inquired, "Are you implying that films can be made by morons?" At this, Kael threw up her hands, and the liberal crowd hissed in accord. Outside of that Leverett context, however, the question seems eminently reasonable...