Word: fleetingness
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The financial plight of Mayor Abraham Beame's New York City is so grim that even far-out jokes have a certain plausibility. Somehow, before the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the city must raise a staggering $1 billion to meet its payroll and operating expenses...
Finally there are those who, chafing at the bit of tepid local escapes and unrestrained by mundane financial considerations, make the most pronounced effort to realize their mythical oasis by spending the week skiing in St. Moritz or soaking up the sun in the Bahamas. These are the true inheritors...
Still, there are moments when Bancroft breaks through. They are fleeting, almost incidental, but when they come upon us, they are a melancholy reminder of what we are all missing. Most memorably there is the instant when the wife first realizes that her husband is moving beyond ill temper into...
FOR MOST OF the photographers in The Snapshot, time is fleeting and each image is an instantaneous moment within it. Gary Winogrand is a master of capturing the telling moment when human interaction is at its most explicit. Sometimes the result is too neat--one photograph is made by the...
The characters act only out of the bas est of motives: Dad, for example, gets canned from his p.r. job because of the sudden family disgrace. He then spends much of the film trying to hunt down and kill his own child, as if to win back community respect. Even...