Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your requesting form Mr. MacEwan a statement explaining just what was his part in the April events, and in particular whether his action did or did not encourage and assist in the forceable occupation of University Hall and the willful disruption of the educational activity of the University. In view of the importance of the proposed appointment Mr. MacEwan has a professional obligation to disclose these facts which relate to his fitness to teach...
People in Cuba talk about "work" in the pre-revolutionary capitalist system as Marx did in his Philosophical and Economic Manuscripts. They view man in a passive role, used like any other tool. They believe that, in a capitalist system, man has no intrinsic interest in either the process of production or the product itself because it is being produced not for society but rather for the profit of the owner of the means of production which the worker uses...
...last week also resigned his agency's Kent and Century brand cigarette accounts, saying that, in view of the health controversy, "We would just feel more comfortable getting out of the business...
...Situation. Michel Piccoli plays an author who is writing a science fiction novel about an electronic device that controls people for a minute at a time. Is Piccoli living the story he is writing? Or is he dreaming that he is living the story? Or is what we view merely a psychotic fantasy resulting from an auto crash? There there is the problem of the actors themselves. Why does Michel Piccoli play a character named Edgar Piccoli? And is it significant that Catherine Deneuve plays someone simply referred to as Catherine? Is this a comment on Cinema and Life...
Take another look at the examples and I think you will find that they destroy many accepted postulates of filmmaking. The writer-reality problem, for example, effectively eliminates narrative point of view, that cherished mainstay of the narrative form. The confused character-actor names go a good way towards breaking down the wilful suspension of disbelief which every audience is supposed to have. The game itself serves to destroy the scared concept of the inviolate frame. At one point, Piccoli looks at the television screen, sees his companion running towards a window, rushes off-screen to save him and immediately...