Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...birth of Jesus is celebrated with gluttonous enthusiasm, the price rises were a direct provocation. Even the poorest family, for instance, sits down to a nine-course "Vigil Dinner" on Christmas Eve. So great was irritation over the government's moves that only a spark was needed to transform it into rebellion. The Lenin Shipyards provided that spark...
...across the frame, the other straight into it. The figure in the left of the frame is opposed to the figure in the right, and the actors in the foreground fight the crowds toward the back. In this closed form of thesis/antithesis, Rocha's open form occurs when he transforms one opposition into another. Rocha's shots are set, closed, until he brings in a new term of antithesis: he pans roughly till the camera picks up a new character on one side, causes a new figure to enter the shot, or cuts away to transform the dialectic...
KORTY has obviously not attempted to make, as the Orson Welles claims, "the most honest film to date about a new life-style." Even if you accept the description of the life-style as a new one, Korty is primarily concerned with his attempt to transform that life-style into a primitive art, burdening his film with mythic resonances and overblown settings which his characters-and his camera-cannot really bear...
Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, said in her opening speech that Currier House is an attempt to form a Radcliffe House system which will transform the previous system of separate dormitories...
...Reich, the hope of the present and the wave of the future is Consciousness III. There were a few early IIIs before the mid-1960s: among them Thoreau, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, J.D. Salinger. But now there are thousands, says Reich, eager to transform American society by a new, generous life-style and a direct commitment to simplicity, honesty and gentle comradeship. The revolution will be peaceable too, for anyone who believes in power and violence, says Reich, is not yet up to Consciousness III. Instead, Reich sees the young simply infiltrating and then inheriting the future. "The new consciousness...