Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like almost all good documentaries in the cinéma vérité style, Say Amen, Somebody is a work of cultural anthropology. It is an exploration of a small, isolated world one would not ordinarily have a chance to penetrate, and it is exotic to the outlander's eye until the film makes the connections to our ordinary ways of life clear and uncommonly affecting. Take Dorsey, for example. He combines a holy man's zeal, a performer's ego and a revered older man's self-contentment, and the film's portrait...
...censor addressing students in Tel Aviv had no idea that Nurit Dovrat, a reporter for the daily Ma'ariv (circ. 200,000) was taking notes of his remarks. When her story about the speech appeared last week, after the name of the talkative censor and some of his other remarks had been deleted by a more prudent Israeli censor, the news set off a clatter of protest...
Then there's the voices. They didn't use Australian actors-not many lurking in L.A., I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo. So they all talk either Ma Maison Irish or Rodeo Drive pommy. Not a trace of Strine from magpie to mopoke until Bryan Brown (who plays Luke, the shearer Meggie marries when she can't get her priest) looms up on the horizon, picking the damper crumbs from his Great Whites with a stringybark sapling...
...ma. You probably saw and used that equation in high school--or maybe you avoided the people who did. Quite a few philosophers also used that equation in philosophy's high school era, attempting to prove that everything can be explained with just those four symbols...
Popper is at his best in defining and delineating the various types of determinism. Through a careful study of scientific disciplines, he demonstrates that "scientific determinism" can be applied only to physics--all other disciplines must be reduced to F = ma. The first chapter, with a few modifications, could serve as a basic primer of holistic and reductionist thought, a boon for those intimidated by the concepts bandied about with such ease by those in the know...