Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philosophically, Marienbad raises only cocktail questions. Nor has Resnais experimented with his medium, for he takes no real risks. On the basis of Hiroshima Mon Amour, interestingly enough, he was virtually assured of wide critical attention and box-office interest. A true risk, artistic or otherwise, never really takes the form of a publicity stunt...
Ever since Thomas Alva Edison invented the motion picture, men have tried to make films that exploited the full potential of this new medium. That is, they have wanted to develop a new art form which could stand by itself, without heavy borrowing from related areas. Too often they have gone little beyond the scope of the legitimate theater; they have done little more than photograph a play heightened in its vividness by close-ups, mob scenes, fast-paced cutting and all the other techniques worked out over the last fifty years. And almost no one has created a film...
...Common Market membership from Prime Ministers of the "Old Dominions"-Canada's John Diefenbaker. New Zealand's Keith Holyoake. Australia's Robert Menzies-could bring Tory fortunes crashing. Menzies was notably less belligerent than he had been earlier this year, saying: "We must strike a happy medium between the insistence on our own position and recognition of the rights of other people." Holyoake, whose country sells 92% of its farm produce to Britain, worked gently on Britain's sense of fair play. "Over 120 years," he declared, "New Zealand has looked to Britain in times...
...take law very seriously, deeply seriously." he once explained, "because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the expression of the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling...
Backlight is the rear window. Mercury's medium-priced Monterey will have one that opens. Press a button and the center section of the backlight slides down on two runners...