Word: transcended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buttresses the Supreme Court's authority as the final umpire that rules on claims to power-whether by states against federal agencies, or by government against individuals. Sound reasoning validates the court's role as interpreter of the Constitution, mediator of national experience, symbol of values that transcend politics...
...David; these last have been two of the most important film makers to come out of the direct cinema movement. The direct cinematographer is a special kind of film journalist who, rather than creating (or reconstructing) events, attempts to situate himself in the midst of them. Though he cannot transcend his subjective viewpoint, his object is ostensibly an objet trove, a "real life drama," and the structure of his film is to be determined by the nature of that object in action. Thus Albert says of Gimme Shelter that "we structure around what actually turned out to happen"; "what comes...
...worries about the lack of restraint in a divided and contentious nation. So much so, in fact, that he has chosen to use the prestige of his high office to speak out on the troubling issues that transcend politics. He derives much of his inspiration from American history, and quotes approvingly from Thomas Jefferson's manual of decorum, which urged restraint on the uninhibited behavior of colonial legislators...
...warm woman who left art school in Kansas City, Missouri to come to Boston (and who was a secretary in Roxbury less than a year ago) calls the Process-scene "our idea of what humanity is about-not people, but structures. The Process is about being able to transcend government, and society, and all those things. It's not that you totally ignore those things, but you get to be able to deal with them, and control them...
Meadmore's work is supremely adapted to being walked around; in this sense it is intrinsically monumental. "I'm not interested." he says, "in metaphors of infinity or of anything else. I have to start with a real object, a thing-and then try to let it transcend its physicality. I've never been able to see why a spiritual statement should be fuzzy...