Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defended her own obsession with Gothic eccentricity in plain terms. "To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. It is most certainly Christ-haunted." She pursued her own art with a strict attention to the order, proportion and radiance of what she was creating. Perhaps that is why Mystery and Manners inadvertently provides a fitting epitaph for the books that she so artfully created before her death. "The fiction writer presents mystery through man ners, grace...
...innovation in Detroit. The compact auto, designed to stop the imported car invasion, featured an air-cooled rear engine made largely of aluminum. It was the creation of Chevy General Manager Edward N. Cole, now president of General Motors. But the Corvair's plain Jane appearance did not seduce as many buyers as G.M. had expected. Restyled with bucket seats and a four-on-the-floor shift, the car gained popularity as something of an American sports car. Enthusiasts liked its jaunty look and responsive steering. Corvair owners be came Corvair lovers, and they joined more than 140 Corvair...
Sculptor in Soil. In place of a plot, Jancso exhibits portraits of an embryonic police state, set against a pitiless sky and a plain so vast that it seems to show the curvature of the earth. In his cold eye, war is an aleatory art in which values are as random as bullets. A military band plays an exhilarating march; a moment later the tune is whistled by a doomed man. A woman is run, naked, through a line of whippers; her lover, unable to watch, jumps to his death. Other prisoners follow his example like an audience seeking exits...
Second, Ford abstracts and ennobles dramatic action by formalizing it. An archetypal Ford image from Stagecoach (1939) through 7 Women is the Full Shot of a vast plain or prairie with a horse soldier (or vehicle) traversing it in a rigidly straight line, as if kept to a defined path by invisible walls. To return to our last reel of Shark Island, when Mudd wakes up the cannoneers, they bolt into sitting position on their bunks in unison, as if a single string controlled them all; the sense of formation is carried through to the end when the prison commander...
...five community organizations that will be invited to join the committee are the Mission United Neighborhood Improvement Team, the Parker Hill-Fenway Area Planning Action Council, the Board of the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center, the Jamaica Plain Area Wide Health Committee, and the Health and Welfare Committee of the Model Cities Board. They have not yet been officially notified of the the committee's decision...