Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side has been making concessions-stopping the bombing, redeploying troops, offering to let the Communists participate legally in political affairs in South Viet Nam. Do you think this has led to any progress in Paris...
...signs of progress. Why? I believe the Communists are convinced they cannot win this war. And so they are counting on the impatience of the American people. They are playing up to those who will accept peace at any price...
...Leslie Uggams Show, and its star, contradicted most of the week's other evidence that the industry is immune to progress. The black singer, after all, made her TV debut in the patronizing Beulah series and then sang along with Mitch before taking over the Smothers' time slot last week. Now, at 26, she has emerged with a sweet, sassy authority that is just right for a variety-hour headlmer. She sang Those Were the Days with a panache that made the Mary Hopkin original seem lifeless. She played willing straight girl to Impressionist David Frye...
...feeling for the past that is at once sentimental and dismembered. His films document man assuming the central persona of conquistador in his environmental relationships. The natural is defined as the pastoral, fragmented by the threatening angles of girders and consumed by the relentless forward movement of concrete progress. More explicitly, the natural world for Baillie is a world in which light plays freely; in man's world light is confined refracted, or invented (for instance, the use of lighted store interiors as a metaphor for death in Mass for the Sioux Dead ). Baillie's most frequent subject...
Baillie's earlier films give a strong sense of internal progress, of work done, despite their non-dramatic form. Pieces like On Sundays, The Gymnasts, and Have You Ever Thought of Talking to the Director ? are unified by the experiences of a central character, whom Baillie uses to explore oppressive physical realities. His basic themes reach their fullest elaboration in his epic films To Parsifal and Mass, and each succeeding work derives its direction and energy from these two productions. In Quixote. the last of his epics, a barbaric technology proves too overpowering, and the sheer visual weight of double...