Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riga's Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Kalnberz has collected a bank of dead men's fingers, trimmed the skin and soft tissues, refrigerated the remaining bone, ligaments, and ten dons at -70° C. To use one of those severed fingers, the inventive surgeon first pares a strip of skin loose from a patient's abdomen, leaving both ends of the strip still attached to provide a blood supply. The loose part of the strip is rolled around the cadaver bone and sutured in place. After almost a month in the hospital, the patient is sent...
Often clasping his hands in a gesture of prayer, the Buddhist priest spoke bluntly, but in a soft and hesitant English. "I am a messenger from the suffering peasants in South Vietnam," Nhat Hanh announced, "and I have come here to tell you that the war must stop...
Seen on a soft spring night, the luminous spires of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha seem to float over Bangkok scarcely touched by the blare of traffic, the neon slashes of bars and the ragged hurly-burly of mainland Southeast Asia's largest city. So too does the Kingdom of Thailand, proud heir to virtually seven centuries of uninterrupted independence, seem to soar above the roiling troubles of the region all around it. Neighboring Laos is half in Communist hands, Cambodia hapless host to the Viet Cong, Burma a xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than...
...role for a Soviet leader. All last week, during his private talks with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin found himself forced to go soft on imperialism. At least that is what Soviet sources traveling with Kosygin were leaking to Western newsmen. "Actually," argued one Russian, "we are fighting Washington's battle. And we're having as much trouble restraining Nasser as you used to have restraining Chiang Kai-shek...
Director Varda exempts exempts François both from praise and condemnation. She merely accepts his behavior as an inexorable fact of life, and dramatizes it bewitchingly in unforced New Cinema style, using abrupt cuts and soft focus to suggest the spontaneous electricity generated by lovers, repeating one action several times to underscore the emotional impact of a scene. The film's conceptual flaw is in the character of the carpenter, a prefabrication rather obviously nailed onto a thesis. Socially and psychologically in limbo, freely indulging his impulses, François may be intended as a natural Everyman...