Word: lamentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiritual void" that sucks him at last to his own destruction. The curtain rises on the interior of a spaceship dominated by the towering electronic brain, a mechanism so advanced that it is nearly human. Ranged in front of it as ghostlike silhouettes, the passengers chant a lament for the planet Doris (actually the Earth) they just left behind...
After years of listening to the lament "It isn't the heat, it's the humidity," the U.S. Weather Bureau has finally decided to warn-or at least try to warn-people when a particularly sticky day is in the offing. By the time next summer's heat and humidity come along, the forecaster will have a "discomfort index" that combines both the air's temperature and the amount of moisture in it. Under the formula, explains Climatologist Earl C. Thorn, a discomfort figure of 75 might mean 80° temperature and 60% relative humidity...
...Harvard continental set has been heard murmuring about the marroniers soon to blossom in Paris, the sweet fragrance along the Seine and how the cafes along the Champs Elysees or the Kurfurstendam are putting up their awnings again. The lament of the Eliot House cognoscenti or the bread-cheese-and wine continental wanderers at the Bick for the douceur de vie is especially plaintive as Harvard thaws...
Perhaps the West Bengali government was surprised--even disappointed--when they first viewed the movie. They saw not a fast-moving, glossy travelogue, but a naturalistic essay, viewing life as a lament of the path. Pather Panchali focuses on a rural Brahman family whose house is falling down. The gate is off its hinges, the yard full of rubbish, and the shutters loose...
...would be impossible to capture Pather Panchali in a glib formula. Five human beings, from young Apu to Old Auntie, each sings his or her own eloquent "lament of the path." But the film is never depressing, for however great the sorrows, they face the path resolutely...