Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite their nomadic ways, motor homers are intensely gregarious people. A great many belong to organizations around the country that stage rallies at which members swap tall tales of the road, expertise and quantities of food and drink (the fare runs to beef, beans and Bud). The biggest and most...
It is hard to say what makes Clouseau so funny. He is supposed to be French, of course. Why, therefore, does he speak English with the strong Gallic accent of a man raised in Stuttgart? His colleagues and adversaries are French too, but they cannot figure out why Clouseau talks...
Unlike in vitro fertilization, which lets nature take its course (sperm from the father and an egg from the mother unite, albeit in a test tube), cloning is asexual, single-parent reproduction. Instead of being a mixture of genes from two parents, the clone (from the Greek word klon, meaning...
Actually, most of Jefferson's inventions were just copied from European models. And most cost him more time and effort than they saved. The dittographer was always breaking down. The way he made his home 'convenient' left his daughter and her children roofless, living under canvas for...
The only coherence was that of mood, but the songs leaked suggestive bits of near-meaning that made beyond-sense, especially when heard through a chemical fog. Re-creating this fog in a film is what Director Michael Schultz and Producer Robert Stigwood have tried to do, and, given the...