Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...been lost in a welter of tinsel and feathers. The tongues of angels now speak with the voice of Muzak. It was not always so. Angels have an older ancestry than Christianity itself, and the most copious sources for named angels are not the New or even the Old Testament but Talmudic and Mohammedan writings. Still, for nearly 2,000 years the belief in angels was vital to Christianity. Only in the past century and a half have angels suffered a leakage of meaning, ending in their present debilitated condition...
...Cassius Clay, Junior Johnson, Carol Doda, Natalie Wood, Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady- even, within such a context, Hugh Hefner. Certainly all worthy of Who's Who, but hardly New York's Four Hundred. That most of the personalities on Wolfe's little list are also celebrities is a testament to the sheer force of their outlandishness. They've forced fame to conform to their standards: their success the result of their crazy new talents and having nothing to do with education or birth...
...tall grass is described in eight different periods, and peopled by eight different historical figures. These are not empty exercises. They are instead statements of Godard's belief that any image can denote virtually anything; and more importantly, that our inability to recognize this fact of perceptual life is testament to an imaginative enshacklement attendant upon an economic...
...perhaps, difficult to forgive these irritating and sometimes tasteless lapses that dot Five Easy Pieces. But it is a testament to the parts of the film that work that they so overpower what is bad. The response this film gets is way out of proportion to the response it deserves; for better or worse, Five Easy Pieces is one of those lucky films that comes along at a time when it can profit largely because of the hyped-up sensibilities of the people who see it rather than those of the people who made...
...contrast between the New American Bible and the Confraternity translation, the U.S. Roman Catholic standby since 1941, is evident in these familiar New Testament passages...