Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragedy it may spawn, the communist conquest, seem in the context of the past decade's events there is the best recent news from Vietnam. For conquering armies the North Vietnamese and NLF have been unusually nonviolent, especially by comparison to the Americans, and South Vietnamese--although it is easy to be nonviolent when one's enemy isn't putting up a fight. They have taken most of South Vietnam with very little bloodshed and they have not used at all the Americans' most brutal tool of war--mass bombings of civilian and military areas in the cities and countryside...
...such breathtakingly contemporary and decidedly hip statements, the movie does little more than pay homage to Hollywood's God, Tinsel, who beneficently provides Beatty, who wrote the script, with enough ribbons and bows to wrap up this relic from some moviemakers' junkyard and offer it as something new. The context is modern but the story is old, so that the viewer is left feeling like someone who goes to bed with an array of new partners, all of whom insist on using the same old position...
...tried to give a balanced portrayal of the Eskimo lifestyle, in which some critical issues of human life come up. They [several congressmen] have pulled segments completely out of context," DeVore said...
...Egypt should get something less than all the areas in question. After all, without a peace treaty, and without even a non-belligerency agreement, a state of war continues to exist between Egypt and Israel for all practical purposes. And giving up key positions during negotiations within the context of a state of war is an unheard-of risk for a country to take, particularly when its opponent has used the territory as an offensive military base three times in 27 years...
...structures and would wreak havoc if they slipped, one becomes aware of their properties as substance: the weight and crushing resistance of stone as against its brittleness in tension; the malleability and tensile strength of steel. Their articulateness goes beyond mere bulk. In the generally cooled-down, entropic context of most U.S. sculpture, this vitality is overwhelming...