Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot--it either limps or goes sprinting out of sight--concerns a young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud) who falls in love with a girl (Chantal Goya) and for various reasons has a hard time keeping up with her. One reason is that Miss Goya enjoys a lesbian relationship with one of her roommates. Another is that she's a yeh-yeh girl just breaking into echo-chambers and the Top 40. But the most important reason is that Miss Goya is a bitch goddess: she looks like a captivating thirteen-year-old and possesses the assurance of a woman...
...dogs have good temperament: affectionate and quiet with humans, they become excited only at the sight of Swifty. But even before the moment of truth there are few horsey hijinks--just a subtle tension...
...were the 1942 election of a constable in a Kan sas township and the 1959 triumph of two town board candidates in Indiana. "I would to God we could elect one good honest dry politician," cried Arizona Evangelist Charles W. Burpo last week, but no Andrew Volstead is in sight and the party's prospects are at best as low-proof as the beverages they would serve at any victory celebration...
Though Liu soon dropped from sight, he became a symbol and rallying point for Red China's anti-Maoists. The Red Flag announcement may have signaled the end of his personal power, but the anti-Maoist forces that he championed must still be reckoned with...
...even when Peace's content is dreariest, its form is dazzling. Director Timothy Mayer is as brilliant as ever at filling the stage with one arresting tableau after another in cinematic succession, and his imagination never fails him in inventing show-stopping sight-gags, which are the life-energy of low comedy. Set-designer Clayton Koelb has shown a genius for translating these sight-gags into usable pieces of stage machinery...