Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain necessary validity, is misapplied in a fiction-film context-so that it becomes sufficient to let the camera run in the barren studio set. This discourages work on the images themselves. The structure of a frame composition used to have some meaning in Hollywood. Nowadays shots refer to objects and people without conferring order on their spatial relations. That's unacceptable even to good documentarists. In the words of one of the best, Joris Ivens: "The theatre screen is not a window through which you look at the world, it is a world in itself...
...doubts, however, that Expo will open on schedule. Pandemonium also prevailed before the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, practically up to the hour that the flame was rekindled. Then, in a final frenetic burst of activity that the Japanese refer to as a kamikaze construction charge, the workers finished everything down to the last doorknob. The same is expected at Expo...
...Neurotics Anonymous members are expected to refer their problems to a greater power, preferably but not necessarily God. To an avowed atheist, one of Grover's lieutenants proposed in all seriousness that an ordinary spoon could serve as a divine surrogate. Grover himself has even suggested that nonbelievers acknowledge the law of gravity as a higher power...
People in and around the theatre tend to call plays like this one "interesting." After I read it several months ago. I myself tended to refer to it as "interesting" to my friends and ex-wives. Indeed I found it not only interesting but playable. I thought this work, Saunders first, might even be exciting in the theatre. But-dear friends and ex-wives-you never know until the product is as they say. on the counter, and I have now discovered I was wrong. Director David Boorstin does every thing he can for Saunders play and yet the play...
...news comment ??? I've ??? believes that he origin??? the use of the term the quality of life in its present ??? in 1956. He used it then to refer to the Adla Stevenson campaign which challenged the New Deal ??? on "the quantity of life." Typified by Franklin D. Roosevelfs promises of material wel??. The change in rhetoric, from quantity to quality, called for more than just updating New Deal policies, it called for a monumental change in American goals...