Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WE ARE BESET by a crop of western about extremely competent people. In Sam Whiskey, a dreary little film which proceeds shakily on the mistaken assumption that the audience is interested in what's going on, the title character engineers and executes a gold heist--crushing his adversaries and winding...
The intriguing sequence was first mentioned by Fibonacci in his book Liber Abaci, which was published in Pisa in A.D. 1202. To solve a hypothetical problem about the multiplication of rabbits,-he used the numerical series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, etc. Each number...
Steel Blue. There is a monumentally unsettling force in Helen Frankenthaler's Blue Head-On. At the same time, a steely discipline is built into the picture. After years of developing her eye, she has found that many pictures normally "work" better with darker colors at the top. A...
Wow, I thought. Fine. Great. But I wasn't asking you to take me out; I was merely trying to return the friendly invitation I received. Obviously, this boy wasn't interested in meeting me, Cliffies in particular, or any other girl in the room, for that mater.
There was enough competitiveness and defensiveness in that dining room to make any attempt at communication inappropriate and completely out of the question. Besides, nobody seemed interested in talking to anyone else. People looked uneasy whenever the music stopped. That was a signal to start talking, and that was what...