Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YELLOW SUBMARINE is an eclectically animated voyage to Pepperland starring four cartoon Beatles. The score is mostly familiar, and the film decidedly too long, but Animator Heinz Edelmann works a few droll visual puns and some distracting graphic legerdemain...
...world, space shots have become routine affairs. There is still a special sort of drama in the trembling instant of decision when the rocket ignites and begins to rise, and in the knowledge of the men strapped down inside the huge projectile -but the drama has become familiar from so many past launchings. The voyage of Apollo 8 was an event, of another magnitude altogether, and it transfixed a blase world Three U S astronauts were about to soar 230,000 miles to the moon, circle it ten times and return to earth In the eleventh year of the space...
...decisions in the White House were made by lawyers, none of whom proved "especially familiar with the social-science theory on which the various positions were based...
...other was more significant: he asked, not too subtly, for the army to keep him in his job. Brazil's officer corps, like others on the continent, is currently split into at least two philosophies of governing. One follows the familiar military tradition of moving in when things go off course, then moving out again once matters have been set straight. The second group, deeply interested in economic growth, believes that progress in Brazil can only come about through continuing military rule. This latter group, whose spokesman is First Army Commander Syseno Sarmento, so far controls the military...
...implemented the notion not only through painting and constructions, but by making plotless, purposely boring films like Empire, an eight-hour lenticular contemplation of the Empire State Building. Such creations can be viewed as a form of extremely arch satire, although they also encourage the viewer to experience familiar objects in fresh ways...