Word: overwhelmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western man has not lived with his natural environment. He has merely conquered it." Others suggest that the struggle will be won once the public realizes the danger inherent in man's Faustian lust to overwhelm and use the world...
...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 21-The undefeated Harvard soccer team picked up a cheap goal midway through the first quarter and waltzed in from there to overwhelm an outclassed Yale squad, 3-0, today in icy New Haven...
...Harvard's Yardling booters mauled a hapless M.I.T. freshman team, 11-1. last Friday afternoon at M.I.T. to remain undefeated and untied. The potent Crimson offense employed speed and adept passing to overwhelm the Engineers...
...retainer. "Well," comments Papa, "it's a hell of a way to learn the joys of fatherhood." Such scenes are punctuated by the ominous overhead rumbling of airplane engines, as the characters stare toward the heavens, reminded of the irony and irrevocability of fate. The white corpuscles finally overwhelm Pascal's tiny body on Christmas Eve, and Papa discovers him, head hidden by the pine branches, expired under the Christmas tree. Still another airplane engine blasts across the sound track as Papa picks up Pascal and carries him offscreen. Viewers may have to be assisted...
...through the Rome airport during Toby's arrival, catching glimpses of bizarre travelers bathed in demonic orange light, their bodies contorted into poses that are parodies of reality. Indeed, there is almost too much in Never for a short film. Fellini's sometimes prodigal genius threatens to overwhelm the story, which he apparently agreed to do only on the advice of his astrologer. But even to such journeyman projects, Fellini brings the kind of stylistic prestidigitation that has made him one of the world's greatest film makers...