Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are similarities, to be sure. Color was the mainspring for both artists, and both treated objects as elements in a pattern. But there are also profound differences. Where Matisse's colors are voluptuous, ripe, filled with the warmth of the Mediterranean, Avery's are tart, eccentric, northern. "Matisse was a hedonist," Sally observes. "Milton was a puritanical man of very simple tastes." His uniquely charming celebration of the world around him, with its dry mirth and insistent individuality, is the legacy of an artist who was in every sense strictly...
Similarly, the themes and characters of this earlier films are here so integrated as to make their significance more immediate. The hero is Chabrol's destructive romantic, but his dialogue hardly reveals profound love or the insane determination to preserve close personal relationships. It is his facial expressions that detail his momentary emotional states and reactions to other characters' words that betray his character. He is the most completely motivated character I have even seen in a film, for Chabrol has chosen to use dialogue obliquely, turning rather to acting and camerawork to describe his characters...
There is no longer time to play with potions. We know that the problems of public education are far more profound than Jones would have us think. To get out of his theoretical haze, and to get a clear and more realistic outlook, we can look to George Dennison...
Working hard at tasks defined by others is the quality of a submissive creature, and we have always been taught to be more submissive than men. This in no way means that women do not become revolutionaries-indeed, our revolt is all the more profound and authentic when it does occur, because our entire lives have been spent, in a variety of subtle ways, in a service of subservient capacity...
...only because he is a man of some profound scruples, McCarthy is an American political oddity. Perhaps no other politician has campaigned on the premise that the very act of seeking power is corrupting. This became the central paradox of his fight: he was scrupulous to avoid seeking the presidential power even while he sought it. Larner believes that McCarthy might actually have been elected President-a proposition that is debatable and unprovable. What he really means is that McCarthy could have won if he had been a different kind of man. But then a different kind of man would...