Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagine puts to good use selections from hundreds of hours of tape-recorded interviews, allowing John to "narrate" the movie himself from beyond the grave and avoiding the need for an intrusive third-person voice-over. John's honesty and wit are ever apparent...
...film makes extensive use of John's "home movies," most of which were made by professionals. These offer a pleasant glimpse into John's househusband years that seems to refute the allegations in Albert Goldman's scurrilous new biography that John was less than a devoted father to Sean, or that he was anorexic, stoned or unhappy during those years. But the film fails to convince because it glosses over this period, just as it glosses over much of John's life in its headlong rush to condense all that John was into 90 minutes...
...young girls melting into quivering puddles at a Beatles concert. During the "bigger than Jesus" brouhaha that lost the Beatles so many fans in the South, a girl says with unwitting prescience, "Some teenagers are gonna believe anything they say." As John comes to realize that he can indeed use his celebrity as a soapbox, he appears more self-conscious, winking and mugging at the ubiquitous cameras...
...August, an Amnesty International report documented Israeli use of "indiscriminate and excessive" force against Paelstianians. Entitled "Israel and the Occupied Territories, Excessive Force: Beatings to Maintain Law and Order," the report details both the systemic nature and broad scale of Israeli violence against Palestinians. Hundreds have been killed by Israeli forces since December, when the Intifada, as the Palestian uprising is called, began, and thousands more have been brutally beaten, abused, incarcerated and humiliated...
...various factors involved are poor teaching abilities, consisting of inability to use the English language, poor communication abilities, and covering difficult topics with a speed that is appropriate only for the abilities of graduate students, if even they would be able to follow some of the presentations that have been delivered in this past week of classes...