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I'm sure their collective scorn reached epic heights when the underdog Democrat, Mathew Santos, edged out stalwart Republican Senator Arnold Vinick in the general election.
Fox execs and shareholders in 1977 must have thrown their collective hands in the air when presented with this infantile vanity project from a clearly unrestrained Gene Wilder: he wrote directed and starred in this excruciating and labored so called comedy and it is a blueprint for NOT allowing temporarily popular 'comedians' free reign to be auteurs.
This film is not so much about a particular story or narrative as it is about analyzing, exploring, and creating a visual palette for ideas about traveling to and from the past, present, and future as it relates to our constant journey back and forth into our own psyches and our collective unconscious.
Together they do a bit of collective soul-searching, swap sob stories and decide to run away together.
Yet this show, with it s improbable cast of characters, lingers on in the collective memory of American TV memorabilia.
But this is nothing but the individual survival instinct that goes against the collective survival instinct.
puck had a history of being a part of one group or another, and he was very comfortable as part of this anarchist collective.
the movie depicts his personal growth, how he begins to reflect and think for himself and become discontent with the collective. he takes a few tentative steps away from the group, and returns - after coming up against challenges when he strikes out on his own or gets pulled back in by other members.
MBYGALD shows that even bands who've got personalities as colourful and diverse as a bunch of accountants and librarians going on a fishing trip can be offered to make a movie in which this absolutely amazing collective charisma is supposed to set the screen on fire.
I was amazed by Korean audiences that after seeing the final scene sighed a collective "Huh?"
What I found most compelling about Last Call were the following 2 things: That like Henry James' The Turn of the Screw you are not really sure if this is all actually happening, all taking place in a single mind or as part of a collective consciousness among the people in the bar/home.
The fun really begins when it becomes apparent what the alien menace is, which are an invasion of flying interstellar space pancakes that make up a collective gestalt creature looking to spread it's way across the galaxy.
Thanks to The Lord and those of his Earthly collaborators like Edison, Lummiere, Melies, et al., for persisting in their individual and collective struggles to envision, establish, propagate and improve what has been called, "the Art Form of the 20th Century.
At its nadir in the winter of 1933, the Great Depression was a form of collective insanity.
In other words, as I explained at a recent panel organized by the Education Above All Foundation at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), attacks on education are quite literally attacks on our collective future.
Europe’s lack of a collective defense strategy, together with declining investment in military capacity, is also a serious obstacle to its continuing global influence as a security actor.
The four largest emerging markets account for more than 40% of the world’s population and have a collective GDP of nearly $9 trillion.
In Soviet times, communist leaders tried to lure people into the kolkhozes (collective farms) with promises of great crops and spectacular meat production.
The danger is that such groups could accentuate the divisions of a fractious society, rather than pull everyone together in the collective national interest.
Indeed, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine involves nuclear-armed powers whose collective military spending accounts for nearly two-thirds of the global total.
The European Stability Mechanism, for example, is a collective project aimed at safeguarding the eurozone's financial stability, not an instrument of domination or confrontation.
Debt-friendly stimulus might be regarded as nothing more than a collective decision by all of us to spend more to jump-start the economy.
Rather, stimulus is about collective decisions to get aggregate spending back on track.
Because it is a collective decision, the spending naturally involves different kinds of consumption than we would make individually – say, better highways, rather than more dinners out.
Aristotle knew of insatiability only as a personal vice; he had no inkling of the collective, politically orchestrated insatiability that we call economic growth.
Outside intervention has left too many scars in the public’s collective memory.
We owe him our collective thanks.
In the half century since the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world community has created nearly 100 universal and regional human rights agreements governing issues as diverse as discrimination against women, state-sponsored torture, and the right of collective bargaining.
But, whereas the scientific community embraces uncertainty, remains ever curious, and is confident about the power of science and technology to create new opportunities for mankind’s collective future, other segments of society do not necessarily share this outlook.
Indeed, it is widely expected that a new system of collective leadership will emerge if Kim Jong-il is incapacitated.
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