Word: performable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustrated rage and alienation of adolescence is the real point and power of Fists. Bellocchio, who wrote his own script, may have personally identified with Alessandro's rampage, but he keeps his distance; the film has the detached quality of a series of animated tableaux. The actors however perform with great competence-especially Lou Castel as the matri-fratricide, Paola Pitagora as his sister, and Ciliana Gerace as the mother. The tableaux are often visually stunning, in the best tradition of Italian neorealism: the ennui and self-contempt of family meals at which the cat steals food from...
...what I wish to speak about now is what goes beyond our saying No, for no matter how loudly we all say it, no matter how loudly we all say it, no matter what ceremony we perform around our saying it, we will not become a community among ourselves nor effective agents for changing our country if a negative is all we share. Albert Camus said that the rebel, who says No, is also one who says Yes, and that when he draws a line beyond which he will refuse to cooperate he is affirming the values on the other...
Columbia used its great height and depth to demolish Yale Friday 100-72 and then turned on cold-shooting Brown Saturday to post a 71-47 victory. Seven-foot center Dave Newmark began to perform like a super-star, tallying 40 points against the Bulldogs and then teaming with sophomore brilliant Jim McMillan for a combined 40 against Brown...
...warn colleges that the two S.A.T. exams (verbal and mathematical, scored from 0 to 800) are blunt rather than surgical instruments, and should not be used as the main standard in selecting students. Even E.T.S. officials rate high school grades as a better indication of how a student will perform in college...
...Ellis sees it, a military radio or TV station or publication should perform like a band. "The band," he explains, "can't make a political comment, can't say a wrong thing unless some s.o.b. has his horn out of tune...