Word: irregularly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that into the mike?" A few moments later, the pop of a champagne cork fills the Loeb. "Perfect-you do that into the mike at that point, and from then till the end of the act everyone should make the same noise." The rehearsal continues, punctuated with a soft, irregular popping rhythm filling...
Pinter abandons the usual tools for needling and prodding an audience into adopting new ideas. His story does not unfold slowly, but weaves backwards, beginning in 1977 and ending in '68 (the skips are irregular: this is not a "flash back each year on Christmas to see how far they've come" manipulation of time). There are no dramatic peaks and valleys, no aesthetically pleasing beginning, middle and end. Gone, too, are the conventional techniques of characterization. Real people, with blood running through their veins, would detract from Pinter's concern with the purely intellectual. Jerry, Emma and Robert...
Khomeini's bellicosity is fully shared by other clerical leaders, who see the war as a unique chance to export their Islamic revolution by the sword. The mullahs have recruited their own irregular forces at hundreds of local mosques, and many of the clerics have taken military instruction themselves. Iran's "patriotic war" has also been joined by hundreds of seasoned leftist guerrillas, who brave clerical harassment in order to fight the common Iraqi enemy...
...recurring images and lines of dialogue. But this is a ghost sonata, and the specter is that of the old (young) Godard, the director of Breathless and Weekend, who dazzled cinephiles with his visual fecundity and youthful wit. His new film, however confessional, seems clinically detached. Its heartbeat is irregular and indistinct, like signals from a dying star on the other side of the universe.And its message for the human race seems to be: every man for himself, and Godard against...
...terms, Dispatches might best be regarded as a huge and motley totesack -- a literary receptacle for sensation and memory, hard facts now and then shifting the balance to visceral impressions and off-the-cuff (oftentimes, off-the-wall) philosophy. To call upon Dr. Johnson's phrase, Dispatches was "an irregular, undigested piece." Or to borrow a word from the French in referring to the form later perfected by the English, Herr's book was, quite frankly, an essay...