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...want to dignify it with that name, going around, American audiences accept it because it has a vague respectability-by-association with Neo-Realist methods. This "aesthetic" says that instead of enlivening a slow script with some action and character development, the director should exploit its opportunities for pointless camera essays. Bullitt is an apt example. All scenes last unbearably long because Peter Yates, its "director," didn't know what to do with a slick script except stretch its banality a little further. You a paying audience, are offered fat sequences of self-conscious camerawork, which having nothing better...
...dash. as had been expected left Harvard pointless as Princeton's Heim Stevenson established a new Heptagonal mark of 6.0, and Army runners placed second and fourth...
...this seemingly pointless air raid? In his history of World War II, Churchill argues somewhat dubiously that Dresden was a "center of communications of Germany's Eastern Front." The official Royal Air Force war history says the bombing was necessary to disrupt the German retreat before the onrushing Red Army. The U.S. State Department has said that it was in response to Stalin's request for "increased aerial support." British Historian David Irving, maintains, however, that the attack was a purely political act, designed "to impress the Soviet delegation" after the Yalta talks on postwar political problems...
...scene we have just seen. The number takes place in front of the scrim. and possibly the only reason for its existence is to allow the sets to be changed. In addition, there is the clambake scene, whose importance to the second act escapes me, but which features a pointless dance number so old-fashioned that even Agnes de Mille wouldn't touch it. (And. after two minutes, I must admit that I turned my eyes to my date so I wouldn't have to look...
...unlikelihood of the state's actually taking over the Stadium does not make the bill pointless. At the least, it helps to divert Patriot fans' attention from the legislature's own record on the stadium issue. For years, bills to construct a new stadium for the team have come up in the legislature and for years, they have died there. Building a new stadium is an expensive proposition-from 830 to 850 million by various estimates-and virtually all of the proposals for a stadium admit that it cannot pay its own way. A deficit would have to be financed...