Word: retrospection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shorts flow so lyrically that even the opening one, a surrealist nightmare with boulders dropping from water faucets and beds disintegrating into feathers and splinters and sawdust, seems whimsical in retrospect. Another disconcerting take, of endless peasant faces and worn bodies soaking in Yugoslavian mud baths, ends with its own soft fade: the camera moves away as the people move away, and mist from the warm mud interposes. A film by a Boston filmmaker (they try to have one in every group of shorts) based on Anne Sexton's poem "Old," has the same quality: two schoolgirls scamper down...
Nevertheless, in retrospect, the agents were guilty of "erroneous human judgment," as Montoya termed it. Moore's futile last-minute attempts in three telephone calls to reach the agents again on the morning of the shooting make the agency appear to have been lax. Yet Moore on each call apparently expressed no urgency. In one call at 8 a.m. she reached only an answering service, and on the other two calls she reached low-level clerks who were wholly unaware of who she was or what she wanted...
...previously existing beliefs about the CIA. That the CIA breaks the law as a matter of policy, that it exerts a subtle and powerful influence in government circles, and that it is free of any effective scrutiny by the American public, let alone the President and Congress, appear, in retrospect, obvious...
...retrospect, I wonder why so many people would give up their wild times for these beliefs. Moon requires his followers to sacrifice everything for the cause. All possessions and monies are given to the church and one's family, friends and future plans are all for-saken. In exchange for these sacrifices Moon provides a strong, supportive community, a powerful father figure, the basic necessities of life and eternal salvation. With these assets, the movement is growing at a tremendous rate...
...vacuum of information we made certain assumptions about the Khmer Rouge that in retrospect, were illusory. Because the Khmer Rouge had ties with the Republic of China, it was assumed that the Khmer Rouge's policies and social programs would have affinities with Maoism. It was assumed that while the NLF was working at grass roots campaigns to reform land use and to set up village councils, the Khmer Rouge was working on similar projects in their own country. But most important of all, it was assumed that because the Khmer Rouge fought against the forces...