Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is not a civil rights series," insists WAOK's white, Ohio-born programming manager, Zenas Sears. "The idea is to bring up problems of youth versus maturity or versus the Establishment. The immediate, practical effect is to make the listener think...
...confused with Jan van der Meer of Utrecht; moreover, his paintings had often been attributed to a better-known Delft artist, Pieter de Hooch, who also painted immaculate Dutch interiors. But in the late 19th century, the French impressionists, seeking to present light through color rather than a painted effect, were astonished to discover Vermeer's virtuosity with the same technique two centuries before...
Unhappily, the film too often has that very effect on the onlooker. True, Michael Caine (The Ipcress File) plays the sodding little spiv with a raucous charm that makes Alfie seem more interesting than he actually is. And it is also true that the script struggles loyally to endow Alfie with humor and humanity. After the friend's wife undergoes an abortion-a scene that takes place off-camera but was only with reluctance approved by the Valenti office-Alfie stares in horror at the unseen fetus of his unborn son. The audience is clearly expected to conclude that...
...have been a real person who wrote some of the Psalms. Lest readers be carried away by such admissions, Alexander Osipov, an ex-priest turned unbeliever, warns in a critical epilogue against taking the Bible seriously as a historical document. None of this discouraging propaganda, however, had much effect on religious Russians, most of whom have had to rely on Bibles printed before the Revolution. Even Scripture edited by atheists, apparently, is better than no Scripture...
...most fervently devout believer in UFOs, not as mere meteoric oddities or psychic phenomena but as the creations of technically superior beings from parts unknown. His evangelistic style is homiletic, catechetical and religious in tone (the promise of an unprecedented revelation to the merely human race has the strangest effect on the nonbeliever). At any rate, the mixture of science and religion is curious, as if Billy Sunday had undertaken a sermon on the subject of the binomial theorem...