Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dent's first step toward Nixon's inner circle came during the Miami convention when he abandoned his original support of Ronald Reagan and helped Thurmond keep the South's delegates in line behind Nixon. Summoned to New York last December and offered a deputy counsel's job on the White House staff, Dent immediately accepted without consulting his family back in Columbia, S.C. "I knew what they'd say, so I just didn't give them a chance to argue." His pretty wife, Betty, and four children have remained in Columbia, resigning themselves...
...return to the circus takes Lola backstage to her dressing room, a cage behind which pass actors staging her childhood. The camera follows them back and forth, passing in the middle of each are the sick, static Lola, and provoking a second flashback. In it Lola, a child still mourning her father's death, accompanies her mother aboard ship only to discover her affair with an officer. The sweeping camera movements which follow this child through the ship and express her curiosity and longing, ironically stress the objects and walls that confine her movement through the cramped lower deck...
...larger framework. Similarly, she can flee her immediate situation only by finally tying herself more tightly: by marrying. The next sequence shows her running from her husband's mansion. A track pushes her from the living room to the entranceway, where lattices and walls immediately before and behind her head lock her tightly in close shot. A dark wall behind her (the house she's trying to leave) blocks the third side, and her husband runs before her to close off the final avenue of escape, to destroy her freedom. She bites and struggles violently is desperation...
...broken-down body can only hobble through the successive positions of Madrid, Rome, and Warsaw. The sequence's most sweeping action is an abduction on horseback; Lola lies across the saddle as if dead. A scene change fills the frames with screens--quickly passing objects--before and behind the actors, and sets up a transition to the next flashback...
...Lighthouse seemed to be Festival director Wein's way of teasing us all and reminding us what was to come that night. And it seemed to pacify, for a while at least, the crowd on the hill behind Festival Field. But as the afternoon wore on into evening (and the traffic backed up for miles and it took two hours to drive four blocks) the crowd on the hill grew and the tension kept building. During the show, small groups did, in fact, continue to rush the gates, the wall was broken in several places, and the crowd inside kept...