Word: illusionality
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Chinatown as a whole shares something of Dunaway's problem. Get too close to it and the careful illusion breaks down. Polanski and Towne turned out a smart and elegant recreation. But the script also raises moral questions and political implications that are never plumbed at greater than paper...
With a tacit bow to the effectiveness of Saigon's counterinsurgency forces in urban areas, the document admits that "our infrastructure has been lost completely. We were seduced by the illusion of peace and became inactive against enemy tricks. We have lost a certain amount of land and population...
In his long sieges in the hospital, lying alongside other terminal cases, he made his own radical conclusions and offered some radical remedies: a patient suffering beyond endurance should be given the choice to end it. If the patient refuses that option, he should be allowed as much pain-killing...
The Industrial Revolution also gave science a conscience. Men like Galileo and Newton believed that science's only responsibility was to tell the truth. The idea that science is a social enterprise dates from the Industrial Revolution, when both scientists and politicians faintly began to grasp the impact of...
Working in such diverse forms as social drama, fantasy and elegy, Renoir has made nearly three dozen films since his first in 1924. Such works as The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936), The Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are classics whose richness and subtlety of...