Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prose is as insidiously effective as the painless touch of the anesthetist's needle she herself describes. Her sentences, pared down bone clean, are chilling in their authority. She tells her story so quickly, so mercilessly, there is simply no disputing what she finds. Her prose almost seems a function of the desert of which she writes-every superfluous gesture, as if in deference to the overwhelming heat, the sun and shifting sands, eliminated. And although the novel's action takes place in L. A., and a good deal of the rest in Vegas, there is no denying their common...
...THEIR ability to make everyone angry without taking a stand on anything, Joe's creators are performing the same kind of function that witnesses say Charles Manson had in mind when he allegedly hoped that blacks would be held responsible for the Sharon Tate murders, thereby kindling a race war. Vietnam is never directly mentioned in Joe, and plain old murder is the screenplay's raison d'etre as well as its resolution. Plain old murder-not to be confused with revolution, repression or even the hard-hat-inflicted violence at a political rally on Wall Street last spring...
...fact is in Liberia they wouldn't have accepted [a proposed change]. We've been bounced out on our ear." Instead the team there concerned itself with advising the planning office on how to get the most money out of its U. S. contracts. But then, its objective function was to rationalize and stabilize the existing arrangements without challenging their economic and political consequence; strengthened ties to, and dependence on, American capital investment...
...CFIA? The question is subtle, perhaps more subtle than the Weatherman raid of the CFIA implied, but infinitely more so than Pusey's pointless vindication of their "fine scholarship" implies. Of course they do "good" work. The Harvard Faculty is made up of intelligent men. But what is the function of their work? Who gains and who loses...
...such threats are carried further -in the nation or in the world-it is a safe guess that "the system" will not be destroyed. Rather it will be rendered less civilized by the searches and the armed guards that will be necessary to make it function...