Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have certain expectations. Confronted with this state of psychic anarchy, the reviewer essentially has two options. He can accept his preconditioning as a given, and simply write down his reactions as they occur, leaving it to the reader to determine the extent to which the reviewer's tastes overlap with the reader's own. The other option is to attempt to make an objective appraisal of the film in the film's own terms, either omitting, or specifically identifying the critic's personal prejudices...
Director Hal Ashby further jags the film with fade-out-overlap transitions, the idea being that everything is in transit, with close-ups of buses and trains, dolly shots galore. This is a self-conscious technique, particularly when the general look of the film is dull and formless. Even when you're trying to put across existential banality there's no reason to sacrifice style, but Ashby does. The prison-to-prison closedness of the action seemed to make the moviemakers shove messy details into the inbetween rather than shape new levels of meaning or regulate the rhythm. "Significant" background...
...addition, the particular way in which Malin's responsibilities overlap suggests questions of conflict of interest. As a coach he has the job of scouting for and attracting the best soccer talent to Harvard; his other work directly involves him in the admission process...
Brooks said the committee is not meant "to overlap or duplicate government studies, but rather to take a look at the framework of the studies and develop its own independent judgement of the way the work is proceeding...
...English and Italian; black and white and yellow and red--simply because we hope there are no such differences. Instead, we should bear in mind that if such differences are shown to exist, they are bound to be differences on the average only, for all such broad human groups overlap fully...