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...Lady Vanishes. Mention a Hit-chcock title and you'll instantly flash on to a scene that has seared its way into your memory: Joel McCray threatened by the enmeshing gears of a windmill in Foreign Correspondent; the assassin's gun poised in mid-air amidst the concluding strains of a London orchestra in The Man Who Knew Too Much; or the ultimate vision of the master, the boydless hand ripping away the shower curtain in the nightmare-provoker of all time, Psycho. This truism does not apply to The Lady Vanishes for some reason I can't quite fathom...
Very little of this is apparent at first. Meaning in Resnais's film emerges only gradually, slipping out from amidst the debates about fate and free will, imagination and reality, to taunt and finally elude us. In the beginning of the film there is only the blue-green eeriness of the forest, where a man shoots a wolf-man, and then a tight-lipped Dirk Bogarde, as Langham's son Claude, coldly enunciating from the bowels of a courtroom the words which ironically frame the film: "Surely the facts are not in dispute." Resnais's theme is in part...
...Crimson added two runs in the ninth to send the sidearm slinging Smith to the showers. Singleton scored for the Crimson while the Engineers booted the ball around the infield, and Santos-Buch sped home from third amidst a botched rundown play...
Coach Wynn, who could find the bright side to a tidal wave, was nonetheless impressed with some strong individual performances amidst his team's sub-.500 slate. Freshman Katie Ditzler and patty Wen were the standouts in singles play, both racking up 4-1 records during the trip...
...Hanoi's Chi Linh Park, amidst the tamarind, rhododendron and banyan trees, there are two man-made structures. One is a bomb shelter, constructed in the mid-'60s as U.S. air strikes crept closer to the capital. The other is a round cage with a pagoda-style roof, built in the French colonial period but maintained by the Communists; it houses two large cranes, symbols in the Far East of longevity and prosperity. The bomb shelter is overgrown with weeds and largely ignored by the populace. "It is marked for demolition," explained one of our official escorts...