Word: totals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main irony of the film that the men who so desperately try to establish an identity through their collective action become overwhelmed by it. Peckinpah's vision of battle is total chaos. Uncompleted zooms are followed by cuts to entirely unrelated images. Pursurers are confused with pursued. At the end we are left with nothing but a sense of the beauty...
Miss Winters' second sentence is, of course, a parody of all the clothes-lessness-is-next-to-Godliness homilies of hippies, nudists, protesters and naked theater advocates, who have somehow managed to equate the altogether with the unattainable: total honesty, innocence, understanding, peace and, in the same breath, revolution. Protesters who stop traffic or disrupt the work of a draft board by taking off their clothes use nudity as a kind of nonviolent Luddism. But artistically undressing is too easy. If a dramatist can substitute a mute nude for the interplay of character and situation, he will be tempted...
...sexuality joyless. On any level of creative intent, it is hard to defend the bulk of salacious literature being churned out today. Most of it is perverse, narcissistic, brutal, irrational. And boring. As George Steiner observed: "The number of ways in which orgasm can be achieved or arrested, the total modes of intercourse, are fundamentally finite . . . Once all possible positions of the body have been tried?the law of gravity does interfere ?once the maximum number of erogenous zones of the maximum number of participants have been brought into contact, abrasive, frictional, or intrusive, there is not much left...
...maintain that the young in particular ?and movie audiences today consist mostly of people under 25?are more sophisticated about sex than the previous generation, and in consequence may tend to be less excited or shocked by nudity or scenes that show copulation. The strongest evidence suggests that total permissiveness in the arts is a result, not a cause, of relaxed standards of conduct. The majority of psychologists and behaviorists in effect reassert the familiar dictum that no girl was ever ruined by reading a book?and no boy was ever seduced by a girl appearing onstage without...
...Jose State College, recently found that only 20% of the banks bothered to make credit checks. The economists also discovered that despite the profit potential of credit cards, many banks suffered bad losses. In all, 10% of the reporting banks lost between 17% and 40% of total charges during the first year of their credit-card business. Two-thirds of the banks earned no profit at all on the cards during 1968, partly because of high start-up costs, but also because of lack of experience in handling large-scale retail credit...