Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PROBABLY impossible to recreate film noir since it is essentially a process of style. The luscious black and whites, the jutting angles, the rainy nights--they're all television staple now and can no longer bear the burden, as they once did, of being some outward reflection of the nation's inner soul...
...grappled with the central issues of his day. Andrew Delbanco believes that Channing's inner life may best be understood through his public utterances, and examines the way his subject spoke as well as what he said. In his biography of Channing, the author acknowledges an abbreviation of outward detail. He prepares us quickly for our journey into William Ellery Channing's mind; we learn in six taut paragraphs that he graduated from Harvard with a gift for oratory and sailed for Virginia in November, 1798, where he grew less sociable and more insular in Richmond as he searched...
...Channing also retained this balance, at a time when it was most delicate. He promoted the idea of a national literature, sought an American Milton enthusiastically while quietly harboring fears and doubts that America could produce one. The beauty of Delbanco's essay resides in its expansiveness: it opens outward from Channing's life to ask larger questions, and leaves the reader something to ponder. Comparing Channing to Henry Adams, the author illuminates a man who "asked the overwhelming question of his century and ours: whether the world is spinning into chaos, or, after a long penance, tapping the divine...
...almost like Outward Bound, but in a urban environment. The job takes you into the city where you learn how to survive," Johnson said, adding. "At a time of shrinking financial aid, I don't know any better job where you can earn...
...things his way; with surgical grace the camera constantly reminds us of his insistence. Similarly, by rehearsing actors and dictating every breath to the point of mechanization, he compounds the crime by which an oppressively technocratic society of bankers brackets his characters. The dictatorial directorial net extends outward: "Do you really want to see a movie?" Isabelle Huppert asks, entering the director's landscape for the first time, looking directly into the camera...