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This is the kind of material that a good director can give us in the wink of a panning camera's eye. Fred Zinnemann, happily shifting down from the upper-middlebrow range of A Man for All Seasons and Behold a Pale Horse, is a good director. A onetime film editor, he is a master of the short cuts that are the shortcut to supplying lots of information effortlessly. He is also a master of camera placement, a man who can give us the essence of a scene in one elegant, yet self-effacing setup. As a result, what...
BARON BLOOD-who is referred to by the hero with unconscious levity as "that ghoulish baron on my father's side"-is a long-dead nobleman brought back to life by some frivolous incantations. His visage is ghastly to behold, but he is crafty enough to disguise himself as Joseph Cotten for most public appearances. Director Mario Bava has made a great many other films of this sort (Black Sunday being perhaps the best known), each displaying a formidable interest in interior decoration matched by a lofty disregard for intelligence. Hitchcock has his staircases, Bertolucci his interludes of dance...
Philosopher William Irwin Thompson, who perceives a growing sense of myth and mysticism in today's technological society (TIME, Aug. 21), mused over the astronauts' "conversions" as he watched the ascent of Apollo 17. In space, Thompson says, the astronauts felt "their consciousness being transformed to behold God making all things new. Perhaps this transformation of consciousness is the strongest argument in favor of manned space flight. Had we merely sent out efficient instruments of measurement...the machines would literally encircle man. Now that we have sent out man, we have affirmed that technology is still only part...
HILLES LIBRARY BASEMENT ROOM: Behold a Pule House, with short and cartoon...
...most of the extraordinary poetic diction that permeates this play. This is a gem of a performance--one that dazzles with the sharp and cold gleam of a sapphire. It is, simply, head and shoulders above every other performance in the show, and by itself worth a trip to behold...