Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rules of the Game Renoir rejects false resolutions. Though the film seems to identify itself sporadically with the aspirations of different characters--the eccentric aristocrat, his Viennese wife, the romantic aviator, and Octave (played by Renoir himself)--the movie ultimately demonstrates all their limitations. Renoir blows the form of romantic comedy apart, constructing a work of great subtlety and complexity, which in the starkness of its vision conveys the difficulties of finding viable way to live in bourgeois society. But will it play in Lubbock...
...maximize loss to the South African economy is the prohibition of all new investment coupled with the full repatriation of current earnings from existing operations, viz., allowing the South African affiliate to depreciate, or, in plain English, "run into the ground." Without new infusions of capital, either in the form of new investment or retained earnings, plants and equipment rapidly lose their economic value and become obsolete. Naturally, the tax code makes provision for the deprecation of assets, permitting the parent company to "write off," so to speak, their losses...
What does a swastika mean? During World War II, it meant the mechanical annihilation of an entire race of human beings--an act motivated by the highest form of vanity. But on the t-shirt of Sid Vicious, who knows what it means? It is shocking, stomach-twisting, and if nothing else, it is some kind of self-glorification that Vicious and his followers need...the self-glorification he saw in old war documentaries when he was in grammar school, ripping out toilet seats during recess...
...accusing oilmen of trying to subvert Congress against the will of the people. In fact, Congress was never as opposed to the windfall tax as people had at first thought, and some form of tax seems almost certain to pass...
Harvard played well, but dropped several matches that it would have taken were it playing at the peak of its form...