Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Vishnu dreams, says the Hindu, the world is born. Private dreams are subcontracted out of this cosmic snooze with the understanding that when Vishnu wakens, all subordinate dreamers will be rubbed out like morning eyecrust...
...choice they seem to have made was inevitable; the hoary zeitgeist would have permitted nothing else. We have had now, for perhaps the past twenty or thirty years, a cosmic choice to make. And because we were thinking about the Cold War, and Third World nationalism, and civil rights, and black power and Vietnam, we really didn't notice that we were making a far more important decision than any our "problems" and "crises" were demanding us to make...
When a fire truck screams down a city street, you often get a feeling of cosmic disunity--someone somewhere is suffering, you think--and instantly a newsreel image of a three-story building burning to the ground or a fireman rescuing a screaming kid comes to mind. Urbanites equate uncontrolled fire with property damage and loss of life. Thus fires are bad; they must be stopped...
...That was too much," Hregan raved after Saturday's conquest. Words of wisdom came from Wilcox: "This has a high cosmic significance quotient." Gorby Grand said, "I'm glad...
GODARD HAS the uncanny ability of fusing the cosmic with the mundane. Almost every action has some larger importance. He appeals to his viewers on the level of their emotions. He films with his instincts. One comes away from Pierrot either emotionally satisfied or emotionally jarred, but either way exhausted, and in this sense Godard is successful...