Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That much disposed of, the judge proceeded to his lecture on bureaucracy. A little homework by the Customs Department on the language and history of the statute that gives it its authority would have been a good idea, Frankel implied. Action, he pointed out dryly, is supposed to be taken...
Godard made Breathless on a budget of only $100,000, but soon producers were willing to gamble much larger sums on nascent directors. By 1961, Georges de Beauregard, who had produced Breathless, endowed Godard with a cinemascope camera and with color film for A Woman is a Woman. Godard, contemptuous...
The Journal succeeds, however, in its breadth of scope. The authors, who come from a wide variety of backgrounds and educational experiences, have written on topics ranging from Los Angeles to Rhodesia, from suicide to the symbolic meaning of a well-kept lawn, from a study of Negroes' reactions to...
...violent encounters with the sinister secret police, climaxing in an unachieved revolution. But the book is deadly dull. The characters drag through their parts listlessly, like unconvinced actors, hardly caring what happens to them. Events pile up without meaning or suspense. Graham Greene has written some exciting--and meaningful--books. What went wrong with this...
In contrast are the vegetarian and assorted rebellious Haitians. These people do have a purpose in life, and I guess we are supposed to notice how much richer their lives are even though their projects fail. But this obvious meaning sticks in our throats. Greene has so infused his narrator...