Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Godard consciously complicates the narration of the Donnadieus' story. The director has a history of experimenting with traditional narrative conventions. In his classic New Wave film, "Breathless," for instance, he mixed elements from the detective, comedy, and suspense genres. But "Helas Pour Moi" is far less straightforward than "Breathless." Godard plays with chronology and with point of view, shifting from the Donnadieus to the townspeople to the publisher and back in forth in time. The already fragmented narrative is further broken by repeated chapter titles and words on the screen. While a straightforward plot is by no means a requirement...
Zhirinovsky: I wouldn't say that America is an enemy in the literal sense of the word. There are no straightforward military actions. ((But)) a secret war has been going on for 50 years now . . . If your aim was to bring Russia to collapse, ((perestroika)) was perfectly executed because you could have done nothing better to destroy Russia...
...that these photographs not exploit the subjects but rather give voice to them," says Liss, who has been a Big Brother volunteer for the past seven years. To keep the shots authentic, he carefully avoided arty angles and used available light. "I believe strongly in the power of straightforward documentary photography," he says...
...myth is simple and satisfying: genius labors long and hard, achieves brilliant success, wins Nobel Prize, basks in glory. But prizewinners' stories are rarely so straightforward. This year's controversial Peace Prize, for example, which was shared by Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, has triggered as much controversy as celebration. And for some of the other laureates, there are, behind the Nobel Committee's glowing citations, tales of recognition too long deferred, of promise lost, of pain and tragedy...
Roosevelt's running mate, Robert K. Massie, is much more straightforward in his criticism of gambling from a moral standpoint; he calls it "morally reprehensible...