Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turning the tables, crack Marine sharpshooters are now carrying hunting rifles equipped with telescopic sights able to zero in on guerrillas from afar. B-52s have begun making tandem runs over Viet Cong tunnel areas, first with deep-penetration bombs that bore into the earth, then with a second wave of conventional bombs that destroy the surfaced enemy. Whenever and however he can be found, the Viet Cong is suffering increasing casualties. Last week nearly 1,500 were killed in several actions, at the expense of light to moderate casualties for the allies...
Harvard, however, list the two events that they would have had to win in order to upset the Tigers. Phil Chase hit a wave coming off the turn in the 50, faded, and finished third to Princeton's Dave Van Voorhis and Bob Humber. Shrout took be lead in the 100-yard freestyle after 50 yards, but lost it coming off the third turn and was touched out by the Tigers' Bruce Brookens in mediocre time, 48.7 seconds...
...allowed Resnais to push further into the realm of abstraction. By 1963, when he made Muriel, Resnais was in unquestionable control of his medium, rendering the slightest impressions subject to his intent. At this juncture, Resnais seems far closer to the Italian director Michaelangelo Antonioni than to his New Wave counterparts; but then, anything is permissible in the New Wave...
Clearly, the only concensus in the New Wave movement is the emphasis which all New Wave directors place on originality and experimentation. These directors are also quite young; hence their tendency to celebrate youth and spontaneity, And whether they are conscious of the fact or not, a concern with honesty runs throughout their films. They will always rent an apartment in preference to shooting a fake studio interior, and their departures into fiction will always be shown as patently nonsensical rather than strain your credibility...
...Wave his employed every technique of the art of film to enhance our perception of our workaday world, Although the initial intensity of the movement has subsided, the experimentation which it introduced has become deeply entrenched in the modern cinema and may lead to even fuller expression and perception in the future