Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegory. His early pastoral poetry hardened into a black-and-white vision in his later works. Le Cenere di Gramsci written in the early fifties, already sees the world divided between an innocent proletariat (an urbanized "noble savage") and an evil, decadent bourgeoisie. His prose development follows a similar pattern; a growing rigidity of perception is apparent when one compares "Ragazzi di vita" (also written in the fifties) to "La Divina Mimesis," a parody of the Divine Comedy he was working on at his death. Pasolini always wrote in parables, but in his later work his symbols become estranged from...
...undercuts the idea of mathematical/conceptual/schematized dance. Six dancers begin standing in formation upstage. Walking forward as a line, they crouch nearer and nearer to the floor until lying belly-down. Pusing themselves backwards to standing, the group returns to its first formation. After several rounds slight irregularities in the pattern crop up: one dancer fixes her hair, another brushes something off her leg, yet another glances quickly at the ceiling. Several rounds later members of the collective blurt out word associations with the "post-modern" aesthetic: "symmetry...precision...logic...formalism." All the while the extraordinarily funny dismembering of the repititive...
Gervasi and the speakers who followed him outlined a pattern of U.S. investment in southern Africa designed to commit those "middle powers" to a policy of support for the American plans for Angola and the resources of the area. "He who controls South Africa," Gervasi said, "holds a dagger at the throat of the west, which guzzles oil at an amazing rate." Ann Seidman, visiting professor of economics at Wellesley, said that the United States had contrived to "create what some people in Africa are now calling a bureaucratic bourgeoisie closely linked with the multinational corporations." Aubrey Williams, an instructor...
Taylor felt the sudden turn around was in keeping with the blademen's pattern this season. "We're an unexperienced team and it takes us a while to really establish ourselves," he said...
...success in 2001 seems to have convinced him that playing the camera lovingly over a tableaux while playing highbrow music on the soundtrack is a substitute for thought and action. Kubrick's sets are at first startling--the lush green beauty of Irish hills and loughs; the crazy-quilt pattern of farmland in the Low Countries; the grounds of an eighteenth-century country house; the glittering interiors of the courts of Central Europe. But the cinematography stays on a travelogue level. Kubrick does nothing to the superb natural scenery to create images; unwilling to create, he simply records...