Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coast to coast cluttered the autumn Sunday. Then, with athletic diversions out of the way, television turned to the week's news.' And inevitably, the major preoccupation was with varying aspects of violence. There were films of angry student unrest from Madrid to Manhattan, and the most familiar dialogue the viewer heard came from policemen ordering antidraft demonstrators to "Move! Move faster...
...networks showed no such reticence about their lavish specials that brightened prime time with an impressive range of entertainment. On NBC, Jack Paar and a Funny Thing Happened Everywhere turned a familiar TV art form into an hour of belly laughs -a collection of filmed bloopers and candid idiocies. Paar himself was the same old enigma. He made few new friends with his enduring self-awareness ("All that applause for little ol' me, Mr. Show Business?") and his growing fondness for corny gags ("I'm here for a worthy cause-the Eskimo Anti-Defamation League...
...first full-length motion picture, Yale film kingpin Robert Edlestein takes firm hold on a familiar visual metaphor, and by applying a vigorous half-twist makes it fresh, contemporary, and personal. The paired figures of the Fair Maiden and the Dark Lady, representing the constructive and destructive principles of sexuality, are as old as American storytelling. In Love and Death in the American Novel, Leslie Fiedler has traced them through historical American fiction, but to a movie audience they are especially familiar as the conventional alternatives offered to the male protagonists of countless Hollywood features. In Sally's Hounds, Edlestein...
...external characterization, and the blocking of any largish group. He shows less command when he has a small, intimate scene at hand, but when he errs, he does so in the direction of emphasizing frenetic movement, which has a special comic advantage over the static set-ups so familiar to Harvard stages...
...students at a time; some students should be allowed more unsupervised study time than others. But almost always, the flexibility that would allow such variations is utterly lacking. To match his school's resources to its students' needs, the educator is forced back to the familiar 50-minute class for every course, the same old allotment of about six class periods a day per student. Otherwise he could never make the pieces of his schedule fit together in the school week...