Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...root of these failures lies in Fassbinder's theory about the relationship between politics and film in general. "I used to think," he says, "that if you brought people up against their own reality they'd react against it. I don't think that anymore." By the time he made Mother Kusters Fassbinder, influenced by the films of Douglas Sirk, had begun to think that the primary aim of film is to satisfy an audience and then bring in politics. He states that "there is no objective reality" and, therefore, unlike most Marxist artists he cannot be interested in portraying...
...foozled his chances by taking a critical bogey on the 16th when his six-iron flew the green. Vik's ball came to rest draped under a plant root, twined by branches, behind a mound. The whole shot should have been contracted out to a capable excavation company. Vik resorted to a wedge, lacking a steam shovel, and the ball appeared with about a pound of mixed solids, plopping down 20 feet from...
...considered, as it would--and she admits this--inevitably reduce the number of women at Harvard, even though it would insure that those who did go here would make full use of their education. Equal access and a more generous scholarship program seem more likely to deal with the root of the problem Trilling has identified: the middle-class socialization that keeps coming back to haunt Radcliffe's alumnae, as they continue to treat their education as a privilege of the upper class rather than as vocational training...
...there is an inherent problem in this story. Viewers are asked to root for the wrong side, the Germans, as they go about their nefarious business. But that difficulty is neatly finessed by two factors. The most important of them is casting Michael Caine as the assault group's commander. There is not another leading man on-screen today who so consistently exudes a sense of decency and honor without being stuffy about it. If one is willing to follow him into the jaws of hell, then why not, for a couple of hours, into a gale of moral...
...love drawing; it's very close to the nervous system," Nevelson said. 'Drawing is the root to all art. I think Seurat's small drawings are the tops; they're masterpieces. Dali is another great artist in the way he crystallizes ideas...