Word: emmet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given the limitations of the screenplay, the cast flesh out the characters as much as humanly possible. Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh and Gary Busey all create idiosyncratic lowlifes out of drab dialogue. Theresa Russell (The Last Tycoon), playing Max's all too obligatory love interest, is powerfully sexy. As for Hoffman, he works hard and well to create a man who lives in a state of constant punishment. It's an admirable job, but one sadly wasted in a film that punishes the audience almost as much as it does the people onscreen...
Scholars like Rutgers' Emmet John Hughes, who wrote for Ike, wonder if Carter would not be better off with more limited and formal rhetoric. Harry McPherson, one of L.B.J.'s speechmen, has long contended that important presidential speeches are far more than just speeches. When done properly, they force an Administration through a laborious internal process, establishing directions, making decisions, hammering out exact language and calculating how to arrest attention and enlist the public. If the preliminaries are not done, or are done badly, the speech is rarely worth anything and is frequently alarming for the evidence...
...Emmet Davis New York City...
...EMMET GOWIN in his family portraits does not look to characterize a specific family, but rather to characterize the sprawl and variety of family life. Figures at both ends of the frame are cut off and those within are arranged haphazardly. Each is involved in his own world, not the photographer's. A baby near the foreground is blurred by motion; most of the others seem lost in contemplation and stare blankly in different directions. Yet there is a unity: the paradoxical combination of wide diversity of attention and easy physical proximity, make the photograph an unmistakeable account...
...confused reflection of a confused world was and is effective, but as the world changes, so must its art. In their very essence snapshots are temporary, only flashes of civilization, which feels constantly undermined by the rapidity of change. Still, certain commitments never change. Photographers will always share Emmet Gowin's commitment to visual truth: "For me, problem is always to find the shape of the gesture, the feeling of space, a light, which holds again a sense of touching reality...