Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production notes for this film say that Paul Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, where Hardcore's modest, acutely observed opening sequences are set. They also tell us he was raised in the stern Calvinist tradition that sustains the heroic father figure (George C. Scott) as he searches for his runaway teen-age daughter. The girl has disappeared into the demimonde of pornographic film production in California, with its attendant agonies of drug addiction and prostitution. Schrader's feeling for the small-town society and values of his youth is respectful, never patronizing. There is an authenticity...
Schrader is making an attempt to redeem an American heroic myth. He is trying to say that in the simple perceptions of unsophisticated people there are a strength and decency too often underestimated by media pundits who have lost touch with the values by which most of America still lives. When we see Scott's anguish as he witnesses a porno film starring his daughter, then watch him plunge bravely into that awful and degrading world searching for his child, we cannot help being moved...
...sure, operated by strict rules that scientists : could uncover. But because of the role of probability in quantum mechanics, Einstein felt that it failed to meet his crucial standard. The universe, he insisted, could not operate on chance. Causality had to exist. Again and again, he would say such things as "God does not play dice." Exasperated, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, Einstein's friendly adversary, finally replied, "Stop telling God what...
...would say? 'You see, they are still taking pieces out of my hide.' " Philosopher Paul Schilpp, who is helping arrange a centennial symposium at Southern Illinois University, acknowledges that Einstein "would hate all this uproar...
...other hitherto unpublicized facets of the British pair's research. The talk had a dramatic effect. Rising to their feet, the 1,200 doctors and biomedical specialists gave Steptoe a rousing ovation. Said Society President Dr. S. Jan Behrman: "We now know what he did. No one can say that he fudged...