Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The work of the city planner is highly technical, complex and occasionally grubby. It is also exciting, full of heady schemes and grandiose concepts. Among the most grandiose are those advanced by Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, 56, inventor and prophet of "ekistics," meaning the science of human settlements. His planning and...
Len Cariou is first-rate as the sisters' brother Andrey, who loses control of the household to his adulterous wife. He gives up his dream of becoming a famous university professor, and contents himself with being secretary to his wife's lover on the local county agriculture committee--a post...
The pharmacologists also complain about the way doctors write their prescriptions. "Writing prescriptions in Latin is an obsolete affectation, conducive to misunderstanding and error," they say. With rare exceptions, the medicine bottle should be labeled with the name of the drug. "The obsolete apothecary system of grains, ounces and drachms...
Thus the German myth's appearance in Blue Angel makes it seem an Expressionist film. But the weight of this material, the subject of the film, should not obscure our view of Sternberg's treatment of that material, for it's his treatment that is crucial to the film's...
THE SCENE'S symbolic content is perfectly accessible. Such devices as the cage and the lamp, together with Sternberg's handling of depth and sets, set up a pleasant and very restricted environment out of which Jannings' character develops. But the same symbols have a deeper meaning which, through their...