Word: featureless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholics, church is usually St. Paul's on Mt. Auburn street. Join the assembly line of featureless flesh that rolls up in front of the huge sanctuary to receive its sacrament in the appropriate slot and return to your...
...humane (somewhere between Bertrand Russell and Hubert Humphrey), and there are moments when one feels that perhaps the whole thing is just another cleverly put ecological tract. What sustains the viewer, however, besides the sound plotting, is the stylishness of the piece. Except for an unfortunate arty prologue with featureless backgrounds and stylized bunnies, Watership Down is made in the classic manner of the old, excellent Disney films. The background painting is rich and highly detailed, and this allows the multiplane camera to exploit its ability to create the illusion of three-dimensionality, rather like the great tracks through...
...fate, truckles to no man or institution, and whose possibilities are as limitless as a Great Plains horizon. Now, however, employers, unions, governments regulate their lives. Mortgage obligations and even rising Social Security deductions hem them in. The open road, down which escape always seems possible, has become a featureless eight-lane interstate, with a Smokey Bear lurking at every cloverleaf. For those people, fantasies of the free life live on in country music, which shamelessly romanticizes the road, and its Truckey cowboys in the CB subculture, with its arcane patois, so useful in frustrating authority figures like the highway...
...badly," says Borges in a conversation with his younger self. "Russia is taking over the world; America, hampered by the superstition of democracy, can't make up its mind to become an empire." In Utopia of a Tired Man, an in habitant of the future lives on a featureless plain, eats cornflakes and tells a visitor from another century, "We have neither dates nor history . . . rereading, not reading, is what counts. Printing - which is now abolished, since it tended to multiply unnecessary texts to the point of dizziness - was one of man's worst evils...
Many of the groupings are formed by surreal figures with whitewashed, featureless faces or glossy, froglike eyes...