Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night. They are thrillers and horrors and suspense films, but they are less distinctive for being frightening or suspenseful than for being tough, violent and fanatical. Most of the films are cheaply made and American--throwaway B-pictures produced from a collaboration of unruly talent. Nearly all of them fit into what critic Manny Farber has called "the termite range" of art, art which is characterized by stubborn, quirky, all but brainless energy...
...example, Rasputin sneaks up to the Tsarina as she prays for her hemophiliac son. Out of the shadows steps the "bony peasant, his face framed by long hair parted in the center and glistening with oil, his eyes emitting a kind of hypnotic sparkle." The Tsarina shakes "in a fit of nervous excitement" as they gaze at each other. The monk scoops her up and strokes her. She slips her arms around his neck and cries, "More, more, carry me around the room." With one eye half closed, he turns to the lady in waiting who had admitted...
...dollars in damage suits. In Washington, American Airlines Vice President Donald J. Lloyd-Jones told a Senate hearing: "It may be that we did cause the crack." But he suggested that the problem could have originated with metal wedges used by the manufacturer to align parts that had not fitted exactly when the aircraft was built Said he: "It may be that the existence of shims in the aft bulkhead created an interference fit that made the creation of the crack inevitable, no matter what procedure was used...
...time we read the novel the images from various films are so firmly imprinted on our minds that it is almost impossible not to filter the events and images of the book through the more familiar ones of the films. We are apt to distort the novel to fit a familiar mold, miss what is fresh or unfamiliar...
...Marley gives substance to the detractors of B.F. Skinner, who say that there would be no art, no beauty in his perfectly conditioned world. Marley does indeed fit the trite metaphor describing how the beautiful marigold grows out of a heap of cow dung. Marley is one of the finest songwriters-singers-musicians alive today, even if he believes that deceased Ethiopian head-of-state Haile Selassie...