Word: static
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bresson's success is precisely in this capacity to coax sentimentalized associations and then undercut them with his formal austerity-the down-turned camera angles, the quick cutting away from scenes, the static framing. What is left is a nature that is neither scorned nor valued, only accepted for the fact of its existence...
...results were both encouraging and dismaying. The U.S. command's assessment that 18 of the 22 ARVN battalions "fought well" is slightly suspect, if only because a great many of the 22,000 troops were employed in occupying static positions and counting enemy bodies after U.S. air strikes. But in general, discipline was high, and there was reason to believe that the South Vietnamese were at last beginning to solve their chronic leadership problems on the squad, platoon and company level. "They had to have damn good small-unit leadership," an Army general argues, "or they wouldn...
...prison-as the writer tells us-is really sex, and its walls-from his viewpoint-are really built of the differences between the sexes and the complexities of sexuality, then Kate Millett actually challenges him with two fiats clenched. One, as we have just seen, defies his static notions of sex roles, his rigid mindset for masculinity and femininity. But Millett's other fist is more threatening to Mailer by far. For with her other fist, he thinks she wants to knock out all the mysteries of the womb, knock them out, scatter them into the stratosphere...
...number of factors have upset the original expectations. Boxed into static positions, ARVN artillerymen with 155-mm. eleven-mile-range howitzers are often outreached by North Vietnamese gunners with 130-mm. pieces that can fire a shell 17 miles. Fog blankets fire bases and curtails vital air support...
...distance from markets became crucial. OPEC members, many of which are a short trip by tanker from the heart of Europe, sense that power is now in their hands, and they are taking advantage of the turnabout to settle some old scores. They argue that posted prices-the generally static figures on which their share is based -were imposed on them by the West decades ago, when oil was not as much in demand as it is today. They note with irritation that, while a barrel of crude in Western Europe yields an average of $8 in the marketplace, they...