Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally the tentacles, until the jellyfish becomes reduced in substance by being eaten, while the snail grows correspondingly in size." At the end, the jellyfish are once again tiny parasites, and the whole cycle begins anew. Which one is the predator, then, and which one the prey? This underwater dance lends Thomas' new book its title and occupies the first essay; its implications echo through all that follows. Life may not be a matter of eat or be eaten; it may boil down to eating and being eaten...
...among the best, but it has its moments. Truffaut picks up Antoine, now a novelist, on the eve of his divorce from Christine (Claude Jade), whom he courted in Stolen Kisses and married in Bed and Board (1970). Antoine is already in hot pursuit of new prey. As usual, nothing in the film turns out as first expected. By the t'me it is over, Truffaut has cagily shifted the audience's perspective on all his characters. A couple who appear to be lovers turn out to be siblings. Antoine's plot for a new novel turns...
...Antonioni, has obviously had an influence on Peter Weir. As in the master's work, the criminal, if there is one, is society. It does not matter to Weir whether there was a sexual criminal lurking up there among the rocks, awaiting these young women who are easy prey, or if their own erotic repression led to some self-destructive hysterical act. The point is that the repression existed, and that it was not created by its victims...
...blatantly ignoring CHUL's recommendations. President Bok said during his open meeting with students Thursday that he was not familiar with the CHUL report. He added that he approved of individual boycotts, but was skeptical of the idea of an official University boycott. The CHUL recommendations could easily fall prey to Bok's commitment to maintaining a morally neutral university...
...Tillie's genius is in her strength of will, as is the case with many artists. She overcame or outlasted the obstacles which came across her path. During her silence she never lost faith. "I was always a writer, I never wrote myself off." More specifically she never fell prey to what she termed "the two great excuses": self doubt, or circumstance. "Some people say, 'If only I had gone to this school,' or, 'If only I hadn't gotten married...,' or even worse, 'Perhaps I was only kidding myself, I can't write.' Fortunately I never had these doubts...