Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best in giving the illusion of depth to a composition. One recalls that several more serious films (Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder was one) were made in 3-D but released flat when studios discovered that the craze was dying down after audience complaints of headaches from imperfect projection. These days the process is used only for an occasional exploitation item like The Stewardesses. Too bad. Besides supplying some nostalgic shudders, House of Wax fleetingly suggests that in the right hands, 3-D could have been a good deal more than a stunt...
...stock in Texaco, with a mere 1.3% of its sales to the military. In implying that all military production is immoral-a highly dubious assumption-the report totally ignores the view of those Christians, undoubtedly a majority, who believe that defense still remains a necessity in an all too imperfect world...
...Clockwork Orange, based on the Anthony Burgess novel, is a merciless, demoniac satire in the future imperfect. It posits a world somehow gone berserk, in which there are no real alternatives, only degrees of madness. Kubrick makes the whole thing (as he did in Dr. Strangelove) chillingly and often hilariously believable. Alex, so contemptuously in control, soon becomes a victim of his own lunatic society...
...that spans the Exodus and Easter morning." There are very different ways in which this message can be delivered, and what is now needed is "the stance of authority," the authority of "those who have come to terms with their own experience and who are convinced that in however imperfect a measure, they have grasped some important truths about our human condition...
...parts, however, make for a highly imperfect whole. As a musical and historical event, the caravan was a total bust. The film's best sequences are those-like Antioch, or a look at a family of Colorado speed freaks dressed as cavemen-in which the tie-dyed patina of the whole project is mocked. But such moments are few. Which is a pity, because as a piece of deliberate self-parody Medicine Ball Caravan could have been fascinating...