Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both more and less serious than he used to be?and more complicated. For one thing, he faced considerable responsibilities. He was suddenly, at the relatively young age of 36, the torch bearer of the Kennedy political tradition. "I came into politics in my brother Joe's place," his brother John had once said. "If anything happens to me, Bobby will take my place, and if Bobby goes, we have Teddy coming along." There were also family responsibilities. Joe Kennedy, the patriarch of the clan, was partially paralyzed and only partly conscious of what happened around...
...matter could be resolved through compromise, or the workers could make good their threat to form their own company and leave CTIP a shell. In any case, the Italians would like to make one thing clear: "We are not anti-American," says Guglielmo Betto, a rebel employee leader. "Some of our best clients are American companies...
...moved into our ward, probably because it might have meant that she would try again to get a job, to leave the hospital's security. Her volunteer happened to be one of the people who doesn't let himself give up on people; her "progress" wasn't a concrete thing to be measured, and yet the strength of their friendship and the degree to which she trusted him affirms that there is no limit to what can be done for a patient...
...whole thing becomes absurd, of course, and that's just the point. More than any other director alive, Agnes Varda delights in giving an audience her euphoric joy in movie-making. Setting up all these apparent symbols is her slightly less than gentle way of chiding audience for their hyper-serious attitude upon entering the moviehouse...
...they should, to Amy Allen as Lysistrata and Charles Sanders as the Commissioner. These are the diametrically opposed forces, Femininity and Insurgance versus Masculinity and Authority. Sanders more-or-less consciously tries to create of the commissioner a sort of Greek W.C. Fields. It's a rather dangerous thing to do; if he didn't have the voice inflections, facial expressions, and gestures (especially flicking the cigar ash) timed so well, if they didn't seem to fit naturally, it would be the sort of characterization one could easily resent...