Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everybody listening to Nixon? Time after time he has proven himself untrustworthy, and time after time experience has proven that the initial impulse to laugh (or moan, or vomit) upon hearing his speeches is justified. Yet, at the very nadir of his notorious credibility, when all logic would suggest that the man should be ignored, people are not only listening--they are believing and obeying. Could this just be a case where Nixon happens to be right, that one proverbial exception that underlines the rule...
...accolade. Some critics maintain that he wrote the same play 39 times in 35 years (1881-1916). That is only half-true. Feydeau's plots are like the Minotaur's labyrinth, except that they are apoplectically funny. One is led on and on with a zany Cartesian logic, but one can never retrace one's steps and relate the story coherently...
THIS KIND of thing gets tiresome as soon as the film begins, but gradually the philosophical gruel becomes downright insidious. If one actually were to try to excavate one idea from Siddhartha, it might be that "everything changes," (they also say that "everything returns" in the same breath--the logic isn't clear) "like the river"--a direct steal from Heraclitus's idea that one never steps into the same river twice. At any rate the logic of the film reveals that one should not fight time, or chase wealth, but live in the present and for the moment. There...
...cause for wonder, the Delta 2000 is hooked up to a little slide projector filled with schematic diagrams of the utility systems used throughout the University. When something goes wrong, all the attendant on duty has to do is to push a specially coded number into the computer's logic system and the diagram pops onto a television sized siren that sits next to the computer console. Without leaving his seat, he can see what's wrong...
...import of the slaughters in Vietnam and the deceptions of Watergate, do not be surprised if Americans, especially older ones, are quick to rally around the energy crisis bandwagon. In the 1920s all this country needed was a good five cent cigar. Now, by the same logic, all the country needs is for someone to put a 50 mile an hour speed limit on the pace of life...