Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Joseph Losey (The Boy with Green Hair) conveys menace with every worn-out Hitchcock device except a creaking door. Delon is summoned to a strange country house, where aristocrats he has never met greet him warmly, and the second Klein's mistress, acted with a shrug by Jeanne Moreau, plays word games with him. Even the other fellow's dog unaccountably (and illogically) takes a liking...
Berger is not, however, a liberal Ivy League don. In fact, he is a maverick outsider who emigrated from the Ukraine as a child and worked his way through school, a gadfly who enjoys riling the old-boy professors at Harvard. Berger's taste for legal jousting is all too plain in his latest book, Government by Judiciary (Harvard University Press; $15), an elaborate study of the 1866 drafting of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and its subsequent application. Berger's conclusion: virtually every major judicial advance of the past quarter-century, from desegregation to reapportionment...
Many of the youths come from neighborhoods with racial tensions, which the program helps to ease. "I used to say 'white boy this, white boy that'--but that's the past." Norm says, after he and an inmate break up a fight between two kids before any punches are thrown. Mark, a white 15-year-old from Dorchester, is blunt in his attitude: "I don't like colored people," he declares, munching a Big Mac after the visit had ended. He admits, though, that "some of them out there are really nice." They were, he conceded, the first blacks...
...Director Steven Spielberg took a routine fish-bites-man story and transformed it into a show business phenomenon. Jaws, a merciless attack on the audience's nerves, quickly established its creator as the reigning boy genius of American cinema and went on to pile up the largest box office take in the history of movies. Now 29, Spielberg is ready with his encore, an $18 million extravaganza about UFOs and aliens who come to earth in them called Close Encounters of the Third Kind. If the director is nervous, it is hard to blame him: when the new film premieres...
Spielberg's point of view in the movie is almost childlike. Close Encounters is in part a celebration of innocence. The characters who achieve contact with extraterrestrial life?especially a wideeyed four-year-old boy (Gary Guffey) ?are those who are most open to experiencing the unexpected. Only the innocent seize the clues that lead to Close Encounters' equivalent of Oz, the spot where the space visitors will land. Only those who are willing to follow instinct can begin to grasp the extraterrestrials' unique, nonverbal language. Though Spielberg is certainly propagandizing for a belief in UFOs in Close Encounters...