Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supervision has been powerless to halt the hostilities. The Canadian members of the ices were so frustrated by the commission's impotence that they quit last August. Upon leaving Saigon, Canada's chief delegate, Michel Gauvin, remarked: "We were sent to observe a peace and came to watch a war." Since then the commission's other members, Poland, Hungary, Indonesia and Iran (which replaced Canada), have displayed no enthusiasm for looking too closely at anything...
...opted to stay home and watch the game on television, you had the added bonus of seeking Hynes and his former mentor and present Harvard hockey coach Bill Cleary, being interviewed by Johnny Pierson between periods...
...nice touches. Now that I understood it, I decided to read their report. They have some dynamic plans for 1974. The best was their new affiliate, "Public Monitor," a program designed to "maintain surveillance of the liberal bureaucrats ..." I think that means that they're going to let us watch Teddy take a shave...
After a while, a group started an anti-Charlie Christmas movement in the Morning Watch council. The outcome of it all was that Charlie could talk about Jesus only as a teacher. No more of this talking about him as the Lord. We don't want to offend "our Jewish students." That really ticked old Charlie off. He even stopped trying to convert me after that--I guess he figured all I had coming to me was hell fire and damnation...
Yasujiro Ouzu's Autumn Afternoon (sometimes titled The Taste of Mackerel) is, quite, simply, a masterpiece. Its muted color and rigorously simple camerawork are consistently a joy to watch, and its emotional insight into post-war Japan is consistently moving. Little more could be said without delving into the intricate simplicity of this wonderful film...