Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strindberg explicates the bleakness of marital life by demonstration, as the program tactfully puts it, "ad nauseam." Alice and the captain don't even have the consolations that a family argument affords with its own drama, distinct identity and kiss-and-make-up reconciliation. Their condition is static bitchiness that will go on forever until death-do-them part. After a while of this, even after Kurt arrives, it's difficult not to hope that death had better hurry...
...producing, image-arranging; the more consciously a theorist he is the more apt he is to become impotent or cranky or both. Like Harry. I try to remain kind of open. Revolt, rebellion, violence, disgust are themselves there for a reason, they too are organically evolved out of a distinct reality, and must be considered respectfully...I try to love both the redneck and the anarchist bomb-thrower. I think they're both anarchists...
Gardner breaks down America's emigres into two distinct categories. The first group, he says, "were privileged young men from an educated class. They are reflective and politically aware. They arrived here with monetary resources and with plans because they had made their decision carefully." The other group is composed of dodgers or deserters from working-class backgrounds with scanty formal education, who have run the border impulsively, often with no money and no immediate plans. He claims that the vast majority of that group are faring well too. "They have interesting jobs and adapt quickly to Canada," says...
...have to be Italian to hate The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, although that gives you a distinct edge. The movie's febrile witlessness easily transcends all ethnic boundaries and comes guaranteed to outrage virtually everybody...
...seen on the home screen by an estimated 45 million viewers, the National Football League play-offs were more like playlets. Each of the four games had its own distinct plot, each its own cast of likely and unlikely heroes...