Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...childhood family maxim: Patience is a virtue,/Catch it if you can./ Seldom in a woman./NEVER...
...Woman is a Woman, the first film in the aniversary series, seems highly atypical of the New Wave at first sight. The use of color and cinemascope depart from the amateurish, low-budget style of Breathless, and the large number of interior shots violates the New Wave maxim of "on-the-street" shooting. But these departures only point out the most important tendency in the New Wave movement: the willingness to experiment with any style, any technique, or any location. Godard uses his camera with the same abandon that characterized Breathless, and in his hands the conventional becomes anything...
Homer says it is a rare man who is as good as his father, and the maxim should be twice as true for grandfathers. Vic Gatto scored 15 touchdowns during his senior year at Needham, Mass. High, but he fell three shy of the school record set by his maternal grandfather...
...taste makers found themselves caught up in the snaky tendrils of a self-conscious style called art nouveau. Not only candlesticks and furniture, but whole buildings were designed to flow with floral grace. From the Paris Métro stations of Hector Guimard to the décor of Maxim's, symmetry was out, organic flow was in, and nothing from the insect or aquatic world was too exotic. La Belle Époque lasted little more than a couple of decades (1880-1905), but in that brief span produced a series of small masterpieces, none more dazzling than...
Then I was young and foolish, to think that the hoary maxim, "pitching is 75 per cent of the game," was a bunch of . After all, what makes a like a few .300 hitters and muscle-men who can belt a every other game...