Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...design, Barry Lyndon is marvelously simple. The first half offers something like a documentary of 18th century manners and morals. To be sure, a lot happens to Barry in this segment-first love, first duel, first wanderings, first military combat-but he remains pretty much a figure in the foreground, rather like those little paper cutouts architects place on their models to give a sense of scale. What matters to the director is the world beyond, the world Barry is so anxious to conquer...
...special programming included an hour-long segment on the 35-year history of the station and taped excerpts of broadcasting highlights during those years...
Bafflement is surely the least obvious fault of Bashevis Singer's stories. They all resound with a clarity that comes from sparse language and a discerning eye for only the most important details. And through this clarity, a stark precision that has captured the lives of a very small segment of mankind, there comes a kind of broader perspective I can only call wisdom because it seems so rare in the modern short story...
...evening that is a dance of delight, and thanks to Director Peter Wood an astute lesson in the choreography of thought, there is only one segment that falters with a portentous sobriety. At the beginning of Act II, Lenin's long monologue with its didactic fervor disrupts the tone of what has preceded it and makes it a bit difficult to get back into the partygoing mood of the rest of the play...
...better. The American body politic is basically healthy. Our people are confident. They want to believe in their Government. There is not the fundamental division you have in many foreign countries. Too often, the Communist vote reflects the fact that a significant segment of the population has opted out of the democratic process and has lost confidence in their government...