Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Offensive. One way or another, through a negotiated peace or a phased U.S. withdrawal, Abe Abrams will likely also be the man who presides over the end of the massive American presence in South Viet Nam. But for now, he must prepare to take over in that awkward age of wars, when negotiations seem about to begin and no one can know when or where they will end. In preparation for talks and bargaining stances, both sides are drawing up as favorable balance sheets as they can on where the war stands today...
...work of the late Boris Vian, an astonishing Parisian who played the trumpet, wrote science fiction, novels and poetry by turns, it was first produced in Paris not long before his death, at the age of 39, nine years ago, and was known here only by name until the Harvard Dramatic Club presented it in a surprisingly good production at the Loeb Drama Center, where it continues...
Friday night a runaway girl was brought to Brigham at the House. Since she was under age and couldn't stay without her parents' knowledge, Callaway said, she was housed for the night with a cooperating local family...
Although some sequences are gone, most of the cutting consists of shortening lengthy shots which dwelled on slow and difficult operation of space-age machinery. Kubrick probably regrets his current job of attempting to satisfy future audiences: the trimming of two sequences involving the mechanics of entering and controlling "space pods," one-man space ships launched from the larger craft, may emphasize plot action but only at the expense of the eerie and important continuity of technology that dominates most of the film. 2001 is, among other things, a slow-paced intricate stab at creating an aesthetic from natural...
...Bowman, probably dead (if we are to interpret make-up in conventional terms) finds himself in a room decorated with Louis XVI period furniture with fluorescent-light floors. He sees himself at different stages of old age and physical decay. Perhaps he is seeing representative stages of what is life would have been had he not been drawn into the infinite. As a bed-ridden dying man, the monolith appears before him and he reaches out to it. He is replaced by a glowing embryo on the bed and, presumably, reborn or transfigured into an embryo-baby enclosed...