Word: remotest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the plot is often opaque, and the narrative constantly interrupted by choruses abusing their freedom of screech, viewers cannot claim that the film makers are deliberately obscure. The remotest aside is painstakingly translated into Chinese and American subtitles. When someone laughs, the title below reads
...today's America, where television, movies and magazines bring the latest visual effects to the remotest community, naive vision has become a virtual impossibility. Even children, by the ages of nine and ten, begin to copy the exaggerated perspective and anatomical cliches they see in comic strips...
Many it the time Tate's wild imagination gets him out of a tight corner. It is our good fortune he is such a poet, because in his verse the remotest disparities succumb to his technique, and make his imagination ours. Is it possible that he has done what he seems to have done here in. "The Descent...
Self-compelled to make painstaking preparations, Williams typically slept only four hours a night during the Baker trial. In the courtroom, he is in complete control. He has a computer memory for the remotest dates and details; his material is so well organized that documents flash into his hands like a magician's rabbits. His hair wavy, his calm buttoned down, he cross-examines hostile witnesses with utter courtesy; he seems never to be trying to trip them up, only to help the jury get things straight. He shuns anger: "It's not a useful emotion...
...setting exclusively for the young Nabokov, "lent an ember to my bicycle bell." Ben, Dan, Sam and Ned, the "wan-faced, big-limbed, silent nitwits" encountered in the English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my memory." On the Nord-Express, "I saw a city, with its toylike trams, linden trees and brick walls, enter the compartment, hobnob with the mirrors, and fill to the brim the windows on the corridor side." A telephone number rises from the welter of years: "What would happen...