Word: strives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President of the U.S. is after Sam's famous name for a National Child Center. At the denim end of the political fabric, a band of radical youths known as the Children of Liberty arrogantly demand his support against the Establishment. In between, friends, disciples and devotees strive to keep old Sam buttoned to their own self-interest...
...instance: manifestly the scrimmage is seen as a microcosm of American platitudes. But if sport so accurately reflects a society, what are we to say of the Indians' bloody game of lacrosse? Or the Latin American madness for soccer? The film's visits to Middle America strive for irony and, often, emerge as smugness or crass caricature. An ex-P.O.W.'s return to New Jersey is played against a background of red-white-and-blue-blooded patriots and wide-eyed schoolchildren. The camera, which amply records the agonies of South Vietnamese political prisoners, seems uninterested...
Here we are at the core of Ullmann's misconception of the role. Her Nora does not grow toward self-awareness or strive for emancipation (as Claire Bloom's so affectingly did a few seasons ago). Instead, she simply seems to assert herself by different methods. Thus there is no sense of either exhilaration or poignance in her departure...
...Snap Shot also offers a wide view of the present state of photographic art. Included are works from established names, such as Robert Frank and Lee Freidlander and from the less well-known but increasingly important photographers such as Nancy Rexroth. Despite important differences in method and sensibility, all strive to snatch meaningful fragments of modern life. Quickly seen and quickly taken, the snapshot is a glimpse of a fast-moving society. It represents a new approach to reality in that it does not separate the main focus of attention from its context. A different form of artistic decision making...
Bleak though this project now seems, the best hope for halting Honeywell's destructive and murderous endeavors is still to strive toward creating a movement among employees which would compel the organization to end its manufacture of weapons. In the interim, Harvard must be reminded that unprincipled alliances, like the one it has established with Honeywell, no matter how limited, are always unacceptable...