Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take another look at the examples and I think you will find that they destroy many accepted postulates of filmmaking. The writer-reality problem, for example, effectively eliminates narrative point of view, that cherished mainstay of the narrative form. The confused character-actor names go a good way towards breaking down the wilful suspension of disbelief which every audience is supposed to have. The game itself serves to destroy the scared concept of the inviolate frame. At one point, Piccoli looks at the television screen, sees his companion running towards a window, rushes off-screen to save him and immediately...
...pickup truck was once the mainstay of rural America. It was used for everything from hauling feed and machinery to taking the family to church on Sunday. Americans are still piling into the small trucks, but now their destinations are likely to be the beaches, mountains or woods. And their trucks have many of the comforts of home -beds, toilet and kitchen facilities, all tucked into a piggyback camper behind the cab. Last week, as the camping season began in earnest, a record number of those recreational trucks took to the roads...
...relationship came about naturally enough, since the U.S., with its virtual nuclear monopoly, was the military mainstay of NATO in the early years. But the military situation has changed, and the Europeans have failed to assume the proper share of their own defense. Most of NATO's European partners spend less than 6% of their gross national products on defense, v. the U.S.'s 10%. One consequence is that NATO has never met its defense goals. At present, NATO combat-ready troops, whose divisions are below full strength, are outmanned by Warsaw Pact forces along the Central European...
...radio essay as well as continuing his wry documentaries on the English language, chairs, women and other necessities. He also narrates special programs and often substitutes, as he did again last week, for Cronkite on the network's flagship early-evening newscast. This season, Reasoner has been a mainstay on 60 Minutes, a Tuesday-night television newsmagazine that ap pears every other week and on which he alternates quarter-hour features with Mike Wallace. This week rival NBC is paying it the supreme compliment - imitation at twice the length - by launching a two-hour monthly magazine...
Harrison, a fluid runner who has scored five of the team's seven touchdowns, has been the mainstay of the Yardlings' erratic offense. Unable to find a steady quarterback, Harvard has had to rely on Harrison's breakway speed for their points...