Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although both candidiates are anxious to win Yorty's endorsement and have wooed him at much-publicized political lunches, a Yorty declaration for Brown would probably not have the effect Democrats hope...
...Resnais's "La Guerre Est Finie" is a sombre and intellectual story of left-wing Spanish revolutionaries centered in Paris. Resnais has abandoned the strongly contrasting black-and-white tones of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "Last Year At Marienbad" in favor of low-contrast greys which deliberately reduce the effect of the plot's melodramatic content. Although the visual construction is simpler than that of "Marienbad" and "Muriel," Resnais does insert short scenes which represent the imagination of the hero, a tired revolutionary played brilliantly by Yves Montand...
...synthesis of Bunuel's anti-clerical nature and his feelings about temptation and innate corruption in society. Bunuel heightened the power of the theme with photography and cutting. Using simple, almost formal, camera movement to create a sense of Simon's grandeur and isolation, Bunuel undercuts the effect with his cynical dialogue and ironic ending (Simon understands the futility of his faith when the Devil takes him into the future to a Greenwich Village discotheque...
...Imperial Russian count living in Paris in the 1900s. Kamensky arranges the murder of czarist leaders, while he fingers his revolutionary comrades for the Czar's secret police. Dame Rebecca hints of his duality, but she is in no hurry to expose him. After all, the effect of a double agent depends partly on the ability to wear his ambiance like a cloak...
...this way the war serves as a kind of self-executing purge of honest liberalism in Congress. Either it removes the honest liberal or it makes him dishonest, and both have the same long-range effect...