Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast is all the more marked in relation to technique: the best Bertolucci's improvised segments can come up with is Brando's famous "everything outside is bullshit" line while Rivette's effort enriches the film with a ring of additional depth. The film-within-the-film approach in L'Amour Fou lacks the gimmickry and inside-joking of the similar segments of Tango: in Rivette's film the function is real, and Sebastien is even helped in his direction by seeing rushes of the television film...
...would be tragic if Richard Nixon's considerable achievements as President were coupled in history with the sordid business of Watergate?as now seems likely. Yet for a while, at least, one of his most cherished words, "honor," will have a hollow ring...
Almost from the beginning, novelists have gone to bat for the game. Ring Lardner saw baseball as the great American comedy-look through the knothole and you found uniformed counterparts of Huck Finn and Charlie Chaplin...
Thought no one from Lowell House raised so much as a hand in the ring, Lowell may stand to do well in the scoring by virtue of the number of people who "participated...
Such arrogant and naive optimism sounded questionable even then. Today it has a particularly hollow ring. For after years of sunny admiration, science suddenly finds itself in a shadow. No longer are scientists the public's great heroes or the beneficiaries of unlimited funding. Unemployment runs high in many scientific disciplines; the number of young people drawn to the laboratory in certain key areas has diminished significantly. Indifference to scientific achievement is the mood of the moment. Even such bold ventures as new voyages to the moon or Mars, construction of giant atom smashers, and journeys to the depths...