Word: face
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feels much more outside of government then do comparable communities in various other countries. This sense of being outsiders contributes to the well-known propensity for American academics to be alienated form politics." The evidence in the essay above indicates just the opposite. The most severe problems that universities face are a result of the overwhelming influence of the government...
Harvard's varsity nine travels to Providence this afternoon to face Brown in a game that could either continue the Crimson's comeback attempt in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League or end all hopes for a pennant...
...February, coach Edo Marion's fencers were at a low point and were settled in last place with an 0-2 record as the prepared to face league-leaders Princeton. Two sophomores, Geza Tatrallyay and Larry Cetrulo, were triple winners, and Cliff Rudermann and Tony Abbott also contributed key wins to give the Crimson a 15-12 triumph...
...French canal. Its crew, a halfwit body and a hulking old man, are forward with the young captain. His new bride is aft, trying to steer the ungainly boat by its heavy tiller. Her husband crawls back along the catwalk to her; silhouetted half over the water with face upturned his doubled over figure resembles some odd monster coming into the camera. He reaches her; they embrace and tumble to the deck. Their figures in medium close shot are indistinct, but the bridal gown she is still wearing burns white in the surrounding dark...
Vigo's focus on mental experience is even clearer in a subsequent sequence where the captain, swimming underwater, sees his wife's face. The shifting appearance of his objective surroundings blends with the illusion superimposed on him: his wife is present in both metaphor and fact. The film's last shot does the same through another semi-metaphor for personal experience. The couple reunited, the barge casts off, and Vigo cuts to a very high shot of the barge (from an airplane) which sweeps over it as it sails down river. The shot is a metaphor for their continuing progress...