Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language of the film was energy cycles--how people key up and run down, how they invest energy and spend it. The theme was abstract and didn't need a story--the plot was unimportant, events didn't have to connect in conventional ways. Much of the undercurrent of ebb and flow was achieved by Altman's technique of using multiple-track microphones, so an audience could hear half a dozen conversations in a poker palace at once, or hear someone out in the half as easily as the person at the next table...
...taxi from San Juan takes almost three hours to reach St. Vincent. As the islands slide by, embedded in their wrinkled sheet of sapphire, you run over your limited skills and lubberly sailing experience and watch your confidence begin to ebb. Bareboating is a cheap way to sail, but it is not for everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang...
Lyrics by FRED EBB...
...Ebb and Flew...
...sake of those friends of ours in Latin America who have based their hopes and aspirations on our strength. This is not a time to deny our own heritage, but is a moment of truth when we must stand erect and be counted."--"Our prestige is at a low ebb in Latin America--this is a consensus. It is low because our policy has been weak and indecisive."--"Freedom is dying in Chile and what it means to Latin America and to us--to free men everywhere--is not pleasant to contemplate...