Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, Woddy Allen's formula is more sophisticated than just that. He generally takes some basic slapstick and Marx Brothers stuff, slathers it with the savoir-faire of the horny ethnic loser, and hurls the whole concoction into an unlikely context, usually the heroic fantasy world of the shlemeil. What he does is magnify the possibilities of the social banana peel. A Jewish herd blowing a date in the Bronx is one thing, but a Jewish herd posing as a Cuban dictator in bed with a sultry revolutionary who tells him he looks a lot like a Jewish herd...
...reason speaks for the Identimat, unreason has to have its say, too. It may be unjustified, it may be silly to look at the hand-print machines in their Harvard context and automatically think of thumb-screws and firing squads, but the connotations of the machine are no less real for being illogical, identimats in the food lines make Harvard that much more faceless and mechanical, and worse: No amount of ratiocination can cover up the first could smell of the thing when you put your hand...
...July 4, 1776, issue of TIME has the unique appeal of putting historic developments in modern context. As we read the various accounts, we relive the emotions and events of that period...
...attacks-on a skinny-dipping adolescent and a little boy bobbing serenely on his air mattress -the audience is in possession of information the characters do not have. It knows the danger but cannot shout effective warning to the innocents on the screen. This is Hitchcock technique in a context the master has never explored. Steven Spielberg, 27, one of the top young directors around, is no Hitchcock yet by a long shot. For one thing, his characters lack the quirks and little guilts that make Hitchcock's creations stay in the memory. Spielberg works self-effacingly, with subtly...
...liberals argue that freedom of speech is an absolute principle and that the tactics of the protesters amounted to repression, while the blacks who stopped the film and those who agreed with them argue that the act of presenting the film must be seen in its "proper historical context" and that the protesters' actions do not compare at all with state totalitarianism...