Word: enigma
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This statement is both perplexing and appalling. The word "country" is an evasion to say the least, if not an absolute enigma...
...like smoke in a windstorm, depriving A.D.A. of its original reason for being. In 1948, before the Democratic Convention, A.D.A. rooted against Harry Truman; some prominent A.D.A. members, including Chester Bowles and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., called for a Democratic ticket headed by General Dwight Eisenhower, then a political enigma. But after getting re-elected in 1948, Truman deprived A.D.A of the pleasures of opposition by trying to outdeal the New Deal. In 1952 and 1956, A.D.A. lost with Adlai Stevenson, but Ike failed to provide A.D.A. with any flaming causes. A.D.A. had to confine itself to jabbing needles, like...
Last Year at Marienbad. Alain Resnais, the grand admiral of the French New Wave, has produced a movie that is anything but a movie; a metaphysical enigma, a Platonic allegory, a treatise on cubistic cinema that attempts an Einsteinian revolution in the art of film...
Last Year at Marienbad. Alain Resnais, the grand admiral of the French New Wave, has produced a movie that is anything but a movie: a metaphysical enigma, a Platonic allegory, a treatise on cubistic cinema that attempts an Einsteinian revolution in the art of film, a Rorschach blot into which the spectator can project whatever he pleases...
Last Year at Marienbad. Alain Resnais, the grand admiral of the French New Wave, has produced a movie that is anything but a movie: a metaphysical enigma, a Platonic allegory, a treatise on cubistic cinema that attempts an Einsteinian revolution in the art of film, a Rorschach blot into which the spectator can project whatever he pleases...