Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partly because he seems to have no firm attitude toward them. Modernism was an actively malevolent force in Chaplin's Modern Times; Tati sees it as nothing more than a minor nuisance. His greatest problem, however, is that unlike Chaplin-or Buster Keaton-he hasn't the faintest idea of how to link one gag to another, building the kind of comic line that tightens, tightens, tightens around them and ensnares the audience in analogous helplessness, the kind that results from masterfully orchestrated laughter...
...conditions. The Central has two theaters in one building. One of them has been featuring virtually the same double show for about three years now, but it's Phillipe de Broca's "King of Hearts" that draws the crowds, and still to sellout capacity--why, I haven't the faintest. Some people say that it is funny, but it is a fool's form of funniness...
...Ferdinand's and she said it was fantastic. I realize that that is only one person's opinion and Rathborne and Luskin need not agree with it, but please don't report as fact that there is pickle relish in the salad dressing when you haven't the faintest idea of how it is made and obviously have even less idea after tasting...
Both Nasser and Algeria's Houari Boumedienne have had the unsettling experience of learning that a plane with Gaddafi aboard was buzzing their capitals without their having the faintest notion of why he had come. During Morocco's recent abortive coup, he offered King Hassan's enemies military aid before he even knew what was happening or who the rebels were. Then came last week's capture of a BOAC jet and the kidnaping of two of its Sudanese passengers. Gaddafi is young, dedicated, naive and, some say, irrational as well. He certainly is as impetuous...
...current model for many younger poets is Robert Creeley, 45, a onetime colleague of Olson's at Black Mountain. Creeley writes poems of a haiku-like brevity, petering out on an exhausted breath, sometimes fixed in the senses by only the faintest suggestion of an image. One poem-on poetry-goes like this...