Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politics, this pictures poses no political threat to anybody's system. Jean-Luc Godard recently said: "If movie makers were building airplanes, there would be an accident every time one took off. But in the movies, these accidents are called Oscars." Instead of meditating/postulating/lauding on the Artist's manifold intentions, et cetera, since his rudimentary competence is now established, perhaps we should ask the larger question about why such films are so highly rewarded, about what they are built-objectively designed-to do. To go someplace? Or simply to parade prettily around the runway...
...reason for quitting Duke are manifold. "There is no single reason I left," Fitzsimmons said. "The jock atmosphere had a lot to do with it. Sports are a big thing down in Durham. and academics as opposed to the rest of the student body are grossly underplayed for athletes, which I just couldn't understand...
...game. They are drawing a bead on the affairs of William J. Crum, the unchallenged "Money King of Viet Nam." As told by congressional investigators and Government witnesses, Crum sat atop a sprawling $40 million consortium of corruption that reached all the way to MACV headquarters. His enterprises were manifold and very often illegal. He smuggled and traded in the black market. When necessary (which was often), the subcommittee was told, he bribed or pressured high-ranking civilian and military personnel. At one point, he held a virtual monopoly on the sales of all slot and pinball machines, jukeboxes...
...system worked well for them and, in fact, is still working pretty much the same way today, transplanted to the Maine coast. Though they never had children, their achievement is a useful model for anyone with the Nearings' admirable ability and energy who is eager to escape the manifold idiocies of urban existence. As Paul Goodman points out in his introduction, however, it does not really bear much relation to the freewheeling life-style being hashed out now in the communes and children's colonies. These new seekers are hungry not for parsley root and multiplier onions...
...that coach equates with king. The free safety is now a freethinker. The inarticulate tackle of old now has his own TV talk show. The rangy country boy with the deadly hook shot has a lawyer, a business manager and a pressagent to handle his manifold interests. Nothing symbolizes the swinging new athlete better than his dress-both on the field...