Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Breaks Out, John Knowles returns to the Devon School, setting of his highly-acclaimed A Separate Peace, to explore the theme of restless destructiveness as the natural state of man. But Peace Breaks Out has neither the depth nor the freshness of Knowles' earlier novel. The "rolling fields" and "limitless blue sky" of the New Hampshire countryside seems telescoped into a two-dimensional backdrop, against which Knowles manipulates his characters like a puppeteer--not to create life, but merely to drive a lifeless moral home...
This episode alone is not what makes Napoleon memorable. That quality derives from its shooting and editing. D.W.Griffith demonstrated the limitless scope of the screen's ability to tackle big scenes in Intolerance (1916). Eisenstein, in pictures like Battleship Potemkin (1925), showed how the juxtaposition of disparate images could create, through montage, meanings that were more felt than consciously understood. Gance's great contribution was to set the camera free of the tripod, making it a participant in, as well as an observer of, the action. His tracking shots were unprecedented...
...economic protection far beyond anything available in the U.S.-became European social democracy's proudest achievement. That accomplishment is now undergoing a painful reassessment. No one is proposing to dismantle the welfare state. But throughout Western Europe there is a growing realization that what once seemed a virtually limitless bounty has reached very real limits. Pressure is mounting to prune and reform the whole apparatus of welfare and redefine its purpose. The public mood behind it all is not unlike the surge of conservatism in the U.S. that helped sweep Ronald Reagan to the presidency...
Under a new constitution that Guyana's rubber-stamp parliament approved in October, Burnham gained virtually limitless authority as President and Commander in Chief. Nonetheless, he called for another show of support-specifically, 75% of the electorate. Opposition candidates were not allowed to see a list of eligible voters, even after the government blithely removed more than 111,000 names, or about 20% of the electorate. There are accusations that other names have been added, including those of victims of the 1978 Jonestown massacre...
...training has been a very painful process for Carter. He hurt himself from the start by both expecting and promising too much. He arrived in Washington with an almost limitless list of priorities that was too much, too soon. Some close aides maintain the President has benefited from that. "He's learned how to prioritize and to say no," says Strauss. "The Panama Canal treaties were important, but he should have worked harder on energy first." If Carter wins again, says Strauss, "he's got to work on long-term planning...