Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style and the meaning of the whole sequence of events to this point show a great development for Ophuls. The settings (in particular the use of foreground objects) and the relatively static camera and quick cutting emphasize the fixity of Lola in her settings. Ophuls does not develop a romantic personality in the abstract; he derives the meaning of her life from her changing position and motion in a setting. The inescapability of Lola's physical settings, her existence in the physical world, is the reason her ambitions are defeated--but it's also the basis of her fleeting triumph...
...idiot and driving into his drums the same way, Loy Solow with a trumpet soliloquy, or David Clavton Thomas making love to his microphone, they're happy up there. It's too simple an explanation of their sound to say that they're the first jazz-rock group to use brass really well-their sound brings it all, rock, jazz, blues and soul, together--but it's still true. When they laugh at each other, When they laugh at each other, when they laugh at you, you know the humor isn't something they're staging; it's real...
...use of only peaceful means has been central to his thinking since a 1953 showdown in the San Joaquin Valley between his Mexican-American C.S.O. pickets and a public official. Suddenly, he realized that if there were any violence or serious disorder it would be his responsibility. He began reading Gandhi, and he says now: "If the strike means the blood of one grower or one grower's son, or one worker or one worker's son, then it isn't worth...
...temple officials' stated willingness to hear him speak and to listen to his arguments. A showdown was avoided when the black leader failed to appear on schedule. Now the league is planning a nine-week camp program near Woodbourne, N.Y., to train members in such things as the use of karate, the handling of firearms, and the arts and techniques of street-corner debating...
...spent her mornings breakfasting in bed without bothering to see her husband off; 4) was fascinated by visions of all the gifts she could get with trading stamps from the food bought for White House kitchens; 5) went on periodic economy drives during which she sent her used clothes to New York for resale under an assumed name; 6) decreed that all White House gifts be sorted for possible family use instead of automatically going to charity; and 7) suggested that at parties, unfinished drinks be refilled and passed off as fresh if they "didn't have lipstick marks...