Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What obtains here, then, is the analysis one brings to bear on data. Language systems (including images and sounds) are our methods of analysis. To a Marxist the New York Times provides all the information he needs about power relationships in America. An ad for Carey Chauffeur-driven cars reads: "There is a new aristocracy in America. Its peers are plainly titled.... If you are a vice-president, you are an earl.... Your castle is the corporation.... You are the most powerful aristocracy in history. You decide what two hundred million people will eat, ride in, wear, laugh at, live...
...defense, Volz believes in the basic man-for-man coverage. "We've tried zones during games, but the best method is the simplest man-for-man defense," he said. "We've had very good success with it and we've had good goal tending from Marchant...
...describes Pat and Dick Nixon getting married: "The serious young man, son of a Quaker saint, docilely lines up at the marriage mart, where all the gooiest extras-orange blossoms, 'O Promise Me,' illusion veils -cover the emptiness of the transaction." It is both Wills' method and mistake to insert his aesthetic objections to Nixon into substantive arguments...
Campus confrontation isolated students from the rest of the country, and by its manipulative method alienated a mass of students from what was seen as a radical elite. The alternative, building a mass base of support, was agonizingly slow. Do you sink to the lowest common denominator of consensus in building a base of support? If not, how long can you spend developing support for a radical objective? Partly because the life of a student is only four years and partly because of adventurism, impatient radicals without a mass base of support eagerly chose confrontations. Building seizures were effective radicalizing...
WHEN the formal method of a sequence makes itself clear it also generates a great optimism that explains the film's title, joyful knowing. Sequences that reveal their own analysis can be genuinely moving to those progressive people who rejoice in discovering how sounds and images mean. Who want films that will provoke criticism, films in which le sens joue, instead of spectacles to dull their critical faculties...