Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eustache really doesn't want to come to any conclusions about culture, sex, morality, cinema or any of the other issues his film deals with. Instead he offers a heightened awareness of how complicated they are without imposing a falsely simple pattern on them; he wants to give us things as they are and not as they can be structured by film-makers. In order to do this, however, he has had to make an unusually structured film, writing out every word of dialogue and thinking out each shot beforehand. Eustache's script repays careful attention even when it seems...
...point, Veronika turns towards the audience and says, "In a bad film, that is what would be called the message." The implication is that only bad films have messages. Eustache made his film bulletproof against interpretation; it succeeds in finally smothering the impulse to find a pattern, while giving us just enough on the surface--of profanity, wit, and nudity--to keep our interest. There is an air of parody about parts of the film--Alexandre, for example, dresses precisely like Eustache himself. In the middle of her tearful confessional Veronika rises from the floor and slyly mocks...
...Patricia Hearst has not only fallen victim to a tragic kidnaping but also to a phylogenetically evolved trait that Konrad Lorenz in his book On Aggression calls "militant enthusiasm." It is a behavior pattern precipitated when young people especially are abruptly exposed to the corrupt, hypocritical aspects of society and thereupon reject all the values and social traditions of that society. They then look for a cause that represents new and higher ideals into which they can wholeheartedly throw themselves. We have all experienced this phenomenon at one time in our lives, whether we acted upon...
...interested to note that in two of the five case histories accompanying your cover story on alcoholism [April 22], the pattern of alcohol dependence was initiated by the advice of a physician. Such cases are not rare...
Only in the Ohio Democratic Senate primary did the predicted pattern hold up. At stake was nomination for the seat vacated by Republican William Saxbe when he became U.S. Attorney General. Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, 56, serving temporarily by appointment, was challenged by John Glenn, 52, the retired astronaut and Marine colonel who is now a franchise partner in five Holiday Inns. When the two last competed for a Senate nomination in 1970, Metzenbaum, with eight years' experience as a state legislator and an efficient, well-financed campaign, beat Glenn. Metzenbaum then lost in the general election to Robert...