Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bazin glorified it in criticism, developing a metaphysical formalism that invests the most innocent pan or track with human Significance. Autenrist critics go even further in this direction in order to justify selected Hollywood directors with extrapolated. Meaning and with metaphysical implications of "unique, personal style. " Godard seeks to strip the cinema of all these vague dimensions that obscure the realities of a class society, and to discover a linear, political dimension for the dialectical discussion of material conditions. His rejection of depth-of-focus is a political rejection of the pretensions to "universality" and "realism" in bourgeois...
Pinter is not out to anatomize nostalgia or even to strip it naked, but to show how people use memories as weapons. The woman visitor and the husband vie with each other to possess the wife by possessing her past. In the process they ruthlessly select and reshape "old times," casting each other in roles to suit their own purposes. Did the woman or the husband introduce the wife to the movie Odd Man Out! Did the husband once meet the woman in a pub and go to a party with her where he gazed up her skirt? The answers...
...loyalty that left Lewis with a fractured skull. Suffering from brain damage, Lewis underwent years of therapy before fully regaining his speech. By the late 1930s he was back on top of the saloon circuit. A fixture at Aqueduct as well as the Copa and the Las Vegas Strip, he was traditionally joined by his audiences in shouting "Post time!" before each of the several drinks he downed during a performance...
Other evidence of the CIA presence is also given by Air America, an ostensibly private company which contracts solely with the CIA. Air America has its own private air strip in Vientiane and its pilots, many of whom were former officers in the U.S. Air Force who have resigned their commissions for the duration of their stay in Laos...
...peace time would be a quiet, restful city. As it is today the only time it seems quiet and restful is if you hold your ears. Planes fly low overhead almost constantly. Every two minutes a plane takes off from Luang Prabang airport-without a doubt the busiest one-strip airport in the world. The noise is often so great that people standing more than two feet apart must shout in order to converse. This goes on 24 hours...