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...song. Electrical troubles with the group's keyboard and percussion instruments caused an hour and a half delay, and the eventual cancellation of their performance at Northeastern. But in Family's only song. "The Weaver's Answer." there was a brief glimpse of the vitality that characterizes this singular group...
...final analysis," says Hungarian Film Maker Miklós Jancsó, "I find no solution to the problem of reconciling man's power with his freedom." Even so, Jancsó has made a singular struggle to come to grips with the problem in such epical films as The Roundup and The Red and the White. Using historical narrative and an elliptical style, he has developed a highly personal cinema for the avowed purpose of "killing all sentimental romanticism." In its place he has substituted a gray bleakness as background for his fables of political manipulation and moral subversion...
...courtiers, he wore a ludicrous robe decorated with axe-heads and carried a headsman's axe several inches taller than he is. It was enough to bring down the house. His version of "As someday it may happen that a victim must be found" included some updated lines ( that singular anomaly, the strict constructionist ), and visual effects-pulling out a picture of Nixon while decrying unscrupulous politicians...
...feel this is a singular occasion," Tebbits said. "As there are so many in the room, I would like to share my introductory remarks with other students...
What is concealed in the quote is an exaltation of food as a visual, tactile, plastic, colorful art form. However, because food is also so functional, its aesthetic qualities are often overlooked. Edibility, food's singular characteristic which tends to divert our attention from its artistic nature, is precisely the element which makes it a unique, almost complete, art form...