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...doomsday bombs?to bear on a peasant nation slightly larger than Florida. The smallest war, 9,000 miles from San Diego, became a national obsession that capsized a consensus President and undermined some of the most crucial American institutions?the military, the universities and, more broadly, the framework of authority itself, the sheer believability of Government...
Within the framework of this unpredictability. Beck retains one or two stylistic focal points. He is one of the few well-known rock guitarists to rely consistently on the lower registers of his guitar. "Don't Want to be Alone" another original, opened with some lower register, bass string single picking, until he found a riff that pleased him. Beck also tends to work off one riff until he tires. A large, glissando chord took the band into Dylan's "Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You." Carmine Appice's vocal was strained a bit, but the guitar work...
...wrasse harems represents a much more stringent control over the production of males than is found in the comparatively random sex reversals of "schooling" fish. Robertson believes that the inbreeding produced by this aquatic pecking order is genetically advantageous to the species. Because "the social organization is a framework within which the selective process works," he concludes, the genes passed on by each male wrasse are those best adapted to the environment of the harem...
...veristic detail (as in lesser New Wave films, or those by such American ex-TV directors as John Frankenheimer and Sidney Lumet), the result is chaos. The film medium, integrating elements of every art, encourages mere thrill-seekers and poetic poseurs. The real challenge is to create an artificial framework sufficiently analogous to the hard reality in which its creator lives to make a philosophic statement artfully: or, as is my bias (and Troell's), to see a historical subject so purely that poetry arises as the culmination of psychological, intellectual and moral developments in the artist's perceived experience...
Although an epic of sorts about World War II. The Sorrow is primarily a documentary of people--who are, after all, the substance of history. The events of the war are a framework and a point of departure, no more than that. The film carries the sad message of human fallibility and deals with the complex of eagerness and discouragement which drives men to apathy. Its lessons are taught by those who endured the war's daily life with more or less dignity. They are the bit players, but they fill this European stage. Ultimately, humankind's performance depends...