Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign in which the Administration had been trying to identify the Democratic party with permissiveness, crime and anarchy, Nixon now had the incident he needed to sew the whole fabric together. But at what price...
Through confusing academic discourse Rohmer leaves you with a murky residue, what Godard has called "a fabric of contradictions" between consciousness and action. Like See You At Mao, Ma Nuit Chez Mand is about "finding the right line" through the chaos, be it political or moral. Both films, however, resist solutions as well. How complete a human clarity is possible remains always questionable. With all his worrying about how to live, about his personal beliefs and his clear conscience, Jean-Louis fails to make an important human perception about the connection between Maud and Francoise, which his scientific outlook...
...dialogue, he delivered frequent briefings over the campus radio last spring and has now scheduled a weekly press conference. He seeks reform, but intends to fight disruption. "We have to preserve order," he said last week, "because if we do not, someone else who does not understand the delicate fabric of the university will come in and do it." Combatting such outside pressures will be tough, even for Lyman. "Were these normal times, he could expect a honeymoon for a year," said one professor. "Of course, these are not normal times...
...exciting individuals aren't just the ones who visit. Imagine the thrill I experienced those summers I rolled fabric at, of all places, a fabric store. Part-time Kisco resident Arlene Francis (I once wore her son's former Little League uniform) used to come in. Arlene, standing behind her sunglasses, talked to me. "Darling, pull down that bolt for me, won't you, dearie?" Sure, Arlene, if you'll ask your toy poodle to kindly stop crapping on my foot. It got so that I preferred the drunk who swung on the arm of Chief Kisco's statue...
...argument demolishes any notion that we possess a well-knit social fabric. His fears are much the same as Fromm's in Escape from Freedom. His solution to our dangerous discontents- calling for a reintegration of ourselves into a community-is remarkably similar. Slater criticizes our compulsive inability to confront important issues and chronic social problems. He notes wittily that our approach to transportation problems has had the effect of making it easier to travel to more and more places that have become less and less worth diriving to-that is, if one can afford the luxury of a private...