Word: functionless
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...When the hero goes for a walk, the film hits you with a feeling of life and action, of the vitality of all the people on the street, quite at odds with the deadness of his apartment and Hemingway's villa, both of which are choked by memories and functionless objects. And that's as far as the film goes. It fails to think beyond its evocation of a middle-class man's moods...
...When the hero goes for a walk, the film bits you with a feeling of life and action, of the vitality of all the people on the street, quite at odds with the deadness of his apartment and Hemingway's villa, both of which are choked by memories and functionless objects. And that's as far as the film goes. It fails to think beyond its evocation of a middle-class man's moods...
...hundreds of Communist-run stores, building firms and other cooperatives in the region's eight provinces flows first into the coffers of the party and its myriad youth groups, women's auxiliaries and other fronts, and then into the pockets of the legions of hacks and functionless functionaries on party payrolls...