Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watkins praised Jakobson's efforts in "his quest for the essence of language," adding, "If the term genius means anything Jakobson was a genius...
There is a method in Mamet's modishness. Edmond harbors horrified inner fears of blacks, homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned...
...Crimson has been far more successful winning games than watching scoreboards. Harvard has claimed the first two of its final four contests, but victories by Princeton and the University of Massachusetts have prevented the stickwomen from gaining ground in either the Ivy race or their quest for a berth in the NCAA Championship tournament...
...records, all of this has about as much resonance as the picture of the RCA dog cocking an ear for "His Master's Voice." In establishing Fitzcarraldo's motivation so haphazardly. Herzog undermines the rest of the film at the outset: instead of being drawn into a grand quest we are forced to watch an overblown whim...
shortly afterward, the film arrives at its intended climax, which proves to be its downfull. Contronted with the ridge separating him from his destination. Fitzearruldo decides to cross it by taking the entire boat along with him. This action tries to capture the madness of the quest. But a symbol requires subtlety, and once again. Herzog stitles, all nuances. The ship is indeed dragged across the land with help him the Indians who, having stepped out from behind their ominuos drumbeat, trurn to be disappointingly sullen rather than mysterious. For at least a half hour they pull the creaking ship...