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What they prove is that Truffaut has honed an eye for the straightforwardly comic. His stylistic caution is underscored because, in doing so, he echoes the safest of the comic modes, situation comedy. More generally, there is an influence of television throughout. The final half-hour is screened as television -- not as sitcom, but as a parodied adventure series...
...might have plowed under the old patch and constructed more of the motels and quick-food outlets that already blight much of Cape Cod. Farmer Brown's son would have approved. When his father grew doubtful about preserving the patch, the boy would remind him: "It is the safest place anywhere for some of our most useful friends in fur and feathers. You know...
...guilty to running the "khaki cosa nostra" in Vietnam.) The two most powerful were Colonel Ross Franklin and General John W. Barnes, who became his immediate superiors when he was given command of the 2nd Batallion of the 173rd Air-borne. Herbert shrugged them off, confident that he was safest in sticking to Army regulations...
...next of kin who received such messages last week, there were particularly bitter ironies. Most of the missing flyers were B-52 crewmen, and B-52 missions throughout the war had been the safest combat duty in the Air Force. As far as is known, only one of the eight-engine Stratofortresses had been lost to enemy fire. That was on Nov. 22, and the crew was able to parachute to safety in Thailand. The air war had been confined below the 20th parallel during the peace talks, and a ceasefire, seemingly imminent, promised...
...real commitments to spiritual growth. Our culture seems to be providing more and more channels for what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called "cheap grace," personal fulfillment, or the illusion of it, with no trial, no pain. Garry Wills rightly castigates the Jesus freaks as resorting to Jesus as the safest kind of high: "an experience, not a demand; an escape, not a task. He was an hallucinogen approved for private use by the Food and Drug Administration." Like some of their counter-culture predecessors, these new Jesus people repeatedly tell themselves how happy they are now. As Wills notes, Jesus...