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...human time is a city/where each inhabitant has/a political duty/nobody else can perform." But in his later work Auden is no longer interested in defining that duty, or even in dramatically exhorting anyone to perform it. He is content to inhabit the realm of "common-sense" and its unrevolutionary complement, "tall stories...
There had been an assumption that technical proficiency was the television viewer's sole remaining natural right, but even the photography on Christie has a cheap look. It does, however, complement the dialogue and the plots which sound as if they were made up as the actors went along, and the direction, whose only imperative seems to be to stretch 15 minutes worth of material out to a full hour's length...
Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is historically a fitting complement to Ballad of a Soldier. Made in 1938, it represents Eisenstein's effort to re-integrate himself with the Stalin regime after a long period of disfavor. Alexander Nevsky is in every sense a one-dimensional film. Its theme is patriotism, and its message, directed in no uncertain terms at Nazi Germany, is that Russia will ward off any attempt at conquest. The film takes place in 1242, when combined Russian armies under the leadership of Prince Alexander Nevsky, defeated the invading German force. Eisenstein uses these events...
...future tours: back up Reed's vocal performance with a tight set of musicians that could attract equal amounts of audience attention when called upon to do so. The remainder of the time their sole obligation would be to keep the audience rocking while providing the perfect complement to Reed's vocal interpretations...
...complement Forum's individual expressions, Soundings, a poll jointly planned by TIME and the opinion-research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., will appear roughly four times a year. Its major innovation is a carefully designed set of indicators of politics and social trends. These are based on responses over a period of time to a set of related questions. One such indicator, for example, is economic stress, and it is clearly rising. Others are conservatism and social resentment; more will emerge in the future. The survey deals with matters that can never be as concretely measured as economic...