Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sounds of Silence, a theme that has hardly marked the 1968 campaign." If the writer had been familiar with the words of the song, I'm sure he would agree that it truly was the theme of the 1968 campaign: And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more,/People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening . . . The sounds of silence...
...influence, which has kept the economy geared to heavy industry and Russian-bound exports at a time when Poles, like other Soviet-bloc countries, were demanding consumer goods. Moczar also exploited Poland's latent antiSemitism, and in a skillful campaign against "Zionism" forced a purge that cost several thousand Jews their jobs in the party and government...
...cube-a conceptual thing." To most people, of course, a hole in the ground remains a hole in the ground. Who would ever think of it as a negative cube? Only a conceptual artist like Claes Oldenburg, who delights in the play of the mind above all, in the thousand fantasies that supplement his visual riddles...
...make you think preplanned thoughts while you're falling. You are supposed to think about the muscles in your body, the tension of the pull of your back parachute opening, the positions of your legs used to manipulate your orientation in the air. You are to count, shout, "one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand" until your chute opens...
...director, Milos Forman, appears in a film clip at the beginning of the movie to give an idea of what his film is about. He says that when it came out in Czechoslovakia, forty thousand firemen resigned, and in order to appease them he had to say that the firemen in the film were actually symbolic representations of society. But then, in a real comment about himself, he undercuts everything he has said by stating that the film is just about firemen. Forman presents a simple story that might easily be loaded with meaning--but he denies that...