Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schlesinger has suggested that, for Billy, fantasy and reality merge into one tangled and confused whole. Yet the triumph of his effort lies in his failure to communicate this interpretation. Billy's imaginings form a series of outrageous cliches that protrude glaringly from the actual flow of plot. As a result, the fantasy sequences might well suggest a delightful spoof of the "81/2"--Marienbad treatment, where the inventions of the protagonist's teeming consciousness must be painstakingly divorced from what is really happening. Happily, Billy Liar makes no such intellectual demands on its audience...
...letter from William H. McGinnesa, Superintendent of the Water Department, read aloud to the City Council, revealed that the flow of fluoride had been stopped at 7 a.m. Feb. 6. Cambridge citizens voted to discontinue fluoridation last November...
Worse, his metaphysics overwhelms his music-the orchestra does little more than italicize the words of the speaker, and the emotional flow of the music follows the text almost sheepishly. The despair he portrays is only the despair of the prideful; drama is merely melodrama. Bernstein is a man of both cheek and genius; and in this case, the composer in him has been no more than the advocate of the showman, the charmer, the chap in the chukka boots shouting down from the balcony...
...places foreigners in U.S. jobs, found an electrical engineer's berth for a Sikh after he was turned down by 15 companies because of his beard and turban. Such applications have led the brothers to plan overseas offices. They recognize that the new American mobility is beginning to flow over national borders almost as easily as it does across state lines...
Peter was 23 and an architecture student in Leningrad. He was eager to talk, and so we spent several evenings together in youth cafes or walking along the hundreds of canals that crisscross the city. Words spilled out of him in an excited, headlong flow...