Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund drive will terminate in four days. The Fund plans to collect for six lunches and dinners at each of the House dining halls and at the Freshman Union. Students have the option to give money, make a pledge, or sign up as a potential blood donor should the need arise...
...another film in the Antoine Doinel series, (starring Jean-Pierre Leaud) in which the "alter-ego" hero tells in analysis what his director has done to him. In Day for Night, the mercurial Leaud character is joined by the director himself, playing a director. The separation is perhaps a sign of Truffaut's gropings for a new directorial maturity: at the recent New York Film Festival he commented that as he had once considered the great film critic Andre Bazin something of a father figure, he had come to look on Leaud as a son. Such is the distance which...
...film being made within the film is a cheap melodrama. There are quarrels and affairs among the actors, and nostalgic recounting of old ways of film-making. There are many homages to figures from the whole history of film: The Citizen Kane Book left on a shelf, the sign for "the Rue Jean Vigo"--a real place, Truffaut claims...
...personal example: I was the college leader of a group called Forward; it was the most vigorous group on the Left. One day it was proposed that the group Forward sign a manifesto--I am speaking of the year 1931--calling for the creation in Chile of soviets of workers, peasants, soldiers and students. I said then it was madness, that there was not any possibility, that this was a great mistake and that I didn't want, as a student, to sign something that tomorrow, as a professional, I could not accept...
...dominated Argentina was no easy task. Indeed, when the Justicialist convention nominated Perón and his third wife last August, many Argentines reacted with incredulity and anger. Isabelita broke down in tears when she accepted her party's vice-presidential nomination, but the weeping was a deceptive sign of weakness. In fact, she seems to be every bit as tough and ambitious as Perón himself...