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...second flaw in Kramer's technique is the studied cuteness of his syncopated scene changes, which jump from a key word or object at the end of one segment to the same word or object at the start of the next. Coincidence is not a logical nexus, merely a clever one, and it's grating after you get the joke...
...these movies were made abroad and could be seen in the U.S. only in art houses. For movies around the world, 1961 was a good year; for Hollywood it was, artistically speaking, a bad year, a slough of sex and spectacles. Yet now and then Hollywood eluded the cash nexus and the sin-drome and produced a good picture...
Emerging from the Dresden railroad station, the visitor is confronted by a half-mile panorama of weeds and rubble, a skyline of twisted girders and the rusting frames of church spires. As a transportation nexus, Dresden was the most heavily damaged city in Germany in World War II. The center of the city, the historic Altstadt, was all but leveled by Allied bombers. The Communists have made little effort to rebuild it after 15 years...
...nexus of both pragmatism and natural law in diplomacy is the secret weapon against totalitarian regimes," the U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand told alumni of the Law School and Graduate Schools yesterday at Harkness Commons...
...nexus of flesh and tissue that joined Chang and Eng together at the waist is not an inherent trait in the Siamese (Chang and Eng, as a matter of fact, were Chinese). Such an anatomical caprice might occur anywhere, in any multiple birth. Fortunately, it rarely does. Most doctors believe that congenitally joined twins are the result of an imperfect splitting of the egg during gestation. The resultant monstrous births may be two complete individuals like Chang and Eng, joined at a single point. Or "they" may be a single individual equipped with an extra (generally useless) arm, leg, head...