Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are people like Corcoran who believe we must refocus our concern and energy on domestic affairs. In that context, the remark able Henry Kissinger becomes, oddly enough, a kind of problem. There was just a hint at Vladivostok that he was seducing Gerald Ford to walk the same primrose path of summitry that Nixon trod. ∎ That land of life is delightful with the urbane Kissinger as tour director. He brings those big fat briefing books that lay the whole plan out. It is all very coherent and tidy, a given schedule with largely predictable results that rest...
...film, "figuring out what the sequences mean to me and ordering them in a way that expresses the themes I think are there." These sequences are visual quotes, and in Wiseman's "reordering and condensing" they are both by intent and of necessity often used out of context. Says Wiseman: "I hope that this is done in a way that is not distorted or unfair to the subjects...
...Birth of a Nation" was every bit as bad as I expected it to be. The unspeakable racism coupled with the undeniable power of the movie (which is indeed a classic in more ways than one) made an eloquent case for the need for the context which Prof. Scott's talk provided...
...felt there was one point which wasn't made throughout the whole controversy. While the racism of the movie was something of a phenomenon, the incredible sexism was simply par for the course! If we attempted to put into context every film which contained such disgusting and degrading stereotypes of women, the film societies would just have to start making their own movies...
...There can be no peace [on our eastern border] without negotiations with Jordan. Regardless of the question of [the West Bank], Israel has long borders with Jordan. Now in the context of such a peace, I believe the Palestinian issue has to be solved, and in the long term it can only be done through negotiations with Jordan. There can be but two nations in former Palestine-the Jewish state of Israel and east of it a Jordanian-Palestinian state where the Palestinians will be able to express their special identity...