Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some anonymous bureaucrat, three actors (Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek and Gunnar Böornstrand) perform a bizarre masque, part psychodrama, part sexual charade. They are like the mummers from The Seventh Seal or the circus performers from The Naked Night imprisoned in an allegory of doom. Inevitably the object of the masque is death. But the dramatic value of the ritual itself is disappointingly slight, giving the entire film an air of anticlimax. There are episodes of typical genius-one of the actors sits in a bed flipping matches from between his teeth until he finally incinerates himself-but Bergman...
Opponents of the Harbor site object to the cost to city and state governments. State Senate President Maurice A. Donahue said Monday that the necessary state appropriations (estimated at $175 million) could not be "justified in terms of proper ordering of social priorities...
This play, the first of two one-acters on the same bill, takes the title of Adaptation . It is the story of a man, a "contestant," who walks through a life that closely resembles a television quiz show. The object of the game is to "figure out the rules and overcome the odds"-and win by landing safely on a "security square...
With or without the additional planes, Israel is certain to step up its anticipatory counterattacks, particularly to relieve the pressure on the so-called Bar-Lev defense line near the Suez Canal. One object of last week's raid, for example, was to provoke Nasser into shifting southward some of the 80,000 men he has along the canal, but he is unlikely to do so. Thus more Israeli attacks can be expected south of Suez. Eventually, the Israelis might also bomb the big industrial center of Helwan, 15 miles south of Cairo, where they could inflict damage to Nasser...
Characters in boxing fiction rarely graduate beyond caricature. The manager is an insensitive swine; for a month's supply of subway tokens he would send a fighter up against a mountain slide. The fighter, swimming up from economic backwaters, is a supreme dolt and an exploited object of surface pity. Then comes the trainer, faithful as a mutt. Behind them all sits the omnipotent syndicate, whose generals eat pheasant under glass and meticulously avoid the sauce stains...