Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formal advice, Nixon held just one meeting. It was a conference of a close quartet: Secretary of State William Rogers, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Attorney General John Mitchell. In the past, Laird and Rogers have privately advocated more urgent action to speed up troop withdrawals. Some White House observers assumed that Mitchell was there to help Kissinger argue for a more cautious troop policy that would enable the Administration to maintain negotiating pressure on Hanoi...
Born in Peking in 1949, Boorman had no formal education before coming to Harvard, though he had completed most of the book. He is concentrating in Applied that Chiang Kai-shek's Western-style tactic of concentrating massive forces in Mathematics and plans to do graduate work in philosophy...
...subcommittee of the Committee of 15 has issued a formal Memorandum clarifying the joint power of the subcommittee and the Dean of the Faculty to suspend a student temporarily found to have violated the interim Resolutions of Rights and Responsibilities of June...
...plan. Warhol's first films were long static takes of nearly motionless objects- the Empire State Building, a man sleeping. Despite their notoriety for selecting events and objects at random, and thus trying to destroy designed art, these films pushed cinema to its fundamentals and were Warhol's purest formal works. A subsequent series of sharply lit deep-focus features sustained interest through one's shifting attention within the static frame. One continually rediscovered the composition's different elements as the people in the shot moved and talked. Finally, Warhol began to zoom and pan, giving people an appearance entirely...
Starting with extremely formal attempts to discover basic cinema, Warhol has found a more extensive natural order in events, people, and settings informally composed. His new shooting style directs one's attention to his characters' behavior. Warhol, like Hawks, builds characters in their mannerisms, the way they deliver lines, and in their relations with others- their constant bluffing to preserve their dignity or identity. Their physical appearances are important to our perception of them, but looks are secondary to the way they carry themselves...