Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their affairs. But as this new government begins to function, and especially in the field of rule enforcement. I detect a tendency for those who do not like a particular result to attack, often with some indignation, the idea of government. I am sure this machinery is imperfect; being less than a year old, it could hardly be otherwise. But as all but a minority of philosophical anarchists will agree, we must have government. This means that we must have rules and they must be enforced. Let us change the rules if they are wrong and likewise those that enforce...
...Mortals, too, are reincarnations, but their imperfect knowledge places the process of reincarnation beyond their conscious control. Still, it is folly to cultivate one's physical material attributes at the expense of his spiritual integrity, because, Bhaktivendanta maintains, it is not the material trappings of one's existence that transmigrate to another age and another existence, but rather the immortal spirit...
Stunningly introduced, running breathlessly toward the camera in a frame worthy of romantically-inclined Hitchcock, Daria (Daria Halprin) represents for Antonioni semi-dormant awareness of the imperfect world she inhabits. A hippie girl who condescends to establishment employment when she "needs bread," this Antonioni heroine is a creature of fashion: she smokes grass (in contrast with Mark's ascetic "reality trip"), plays music on her radio rather than strike bulletins, and tends to pacify her frustrations and desires by retreating into claborate fantasies. An occasional line suggests that these fantasies are standard-operating-procedure. Mark speaks of the group...
Miller's crapulous expatriates have a vitality that even Strick cannot quash. Their scatological, X-rated fury at a world that has the audacity to be imperfect is still molten. And their alternate curses at and apostrophes to the female pudenda retain a primal humor. But anyone who has read or watched the real Henry Miller knows that the author possesses a sly, ribald wit that is entirely absent from Rip Torn's somnambulistic impersonation. Leeching meals and wives from the bourgeois, Miller-Torn provides neither charm nor intelligence; it is impossible to believe that he would...