Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesirree, a fine fire. Beautiful. Wow! There goes another chimney! Careful everyone--stand back. Watch out for the flying balcony! Good thing the new one will be made out of cement blocks and steel girders...
Pierre and Cybele stand, hand in hand, by the lake. The camera moves backward and we see their reflections in the water. They move away, yet their backs come towards us. The camera inverts, the lake becomes the land. But to dissect the scene in this manner as we watch is to shatter the stuble imagery that Bourguignon invokes. If instead, we suspend our critical faculties--sit back and let ourselves be fooled again and again--we may enter into manifold perceptions of the world...
Brecht's foreword urges the viewer to "watch now the inexplicable wrestling match between two men . . . Don't worry about the reasons for this fight but make yourself share in the human stakes." The advice is well-taken, because the reasons for the struggle seem decidedly artificial from the start. Shlink a Chinese timber dealer, purposely provokes a fatal quarrel with George Garga, an employee in a moth-eaten lending library. When Garga refuses to sell his opinion of a book to Shlink and his three thugs, the Chinaman concludes that he is a man of spirit an man worthy...
...Some of you think you've come to a circus to watch a dancing bear," said the moderator cynically. Perhaps some had, but Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. Flanked by three docile bodyguards Malcolm baffled his Leverett House audience with an oddly-paced blend of demagoguery and rationality, haughtiness and humor, sham history and acute analysis, utopian policies and realpolitik...
...Toronto may be the team to watch. Since Bathgate and McKenney have become accustomed to their new team- mates, the Leafs have won dired straight. The line of Bathgate, McKenney, and Dave Keon was on the ice during eight Toronto goals in two games last weekend, after being united only a week before. If these men keep scoring and the defense starts to pull itself together, the Leafs will be hard to stop