Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other part of the film is comparable to this one. Many of the fragmented episodes are effective, but many others have little to add to the general effect. The disconnection itself has its purpose, and gives an all-inclusive quality to the film; yet it is also distracting and contributes to the film's great weakness: its general diffuseness, its inability to command sustained attention. For Pather Panchali, remarkable as it may be, is something of a chore to sit through. The viewer receives the impression that he is watching a document, an amazing document to be sure...
When a reporter asked: "How's your cold?" the President's health became the principal topic for discussion. "Almost three years ago," said he, "I contracted a bronchitis which finally seems to have developed and become chronic. And so every slight cold has a sort of multiplied effect on me." That is why, he said ironically, "I seek the warm weather and sun." He added that he had the flu before he went to California in October. "I called it flu. Whether the doctor did or not,*I don't think I ever asked him. Anytime...
...political effect of the New Australians is just beginning to be felt. In last year's elections, when the parties campaigned in half a dozen languages, most of the newcomers, as satellite refugees from Communism, backed Conservative Premier Robert Menzies. But some of Menzies' aides shudder to think what would happen to their own fortunes if the Continental Roman Catholics joined up eventually with Irish Catholics among the Old Australians, who traditionally vote Labor...
...Even in its parading, the show never turns brassy. Its tunes are offhand but full of lilt; and those who fill its period roles are mostly actors rather than musicomedy performers. That is why, at their best, they perform so engagingly. Take Me Along itself has less the effect of a full-scale musical than of a show much enlivened with music...
...leafed through the Fulbright; he needed a study project, recommendations, and four copies of a Curriculum Vitae. He paused over the study project: "I would like," he wrote finally, "to study the effect of the fear of Asian immigration on Australian poetry of the twentieth century. There has been no satisfactory work yet done in this field." He wrote his project twice, each time with a carbon copy and then spent an hour composing a Curriculum Vitae. The Curriculum Vitae, he told himself, I can use on the Fulbright and the French Government Grant Application and the Fulbright Travel Grant...