Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skiers from the Eastern Region ever to win a national championship, Tyll has been constantly close to setting a world record in this event over the past year and a half...
...week ago, when they scaled 2000 feet of the previously unconquered east side of Mt. McKinley's Wickersham Wall. Observers had expressed apprehension that the party had been buried in one of a series of avalanches that swept Wickersham Wall recently, but the climbers are now above the avalanche region and are apparently out of danger...
...swarthy chieftains and pale queens who once ruled the five kingdoms of Celtic Ireland still clatter across country. As the island's endless sleight-of-sky creates and dissolves horizons, the landscape seems dreamily unreal. The reality of Ireland is special: it lies on a border region where tragedy and laughter, jollity and gloom, hell and the happy isles converge-and as such it may reflect human existence more truly than what usually passes for realism...
...detail of Venice's rich architecture is overlooked, yet the city, with its innumerable chimneys, seems imaginary. And finally, there is the color-perfectly balanced, magnificently muted, not quite day and not quite night, but, like the scene as a whole, in a twilight region between reality and pure fancy...
...moment is exquisitely interpreted and profoundly affecting, but the rest of the film is cold. However, the chill is deliberate. It counterfeits the frigid region of unbeing inhabited by the hero. It forces the spectator to see the hero's life from an infinite distance, with an infinite impersonality. The experience is uncanny. It makes the moviegoer feel almost like...