Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death stunned Israel. Ofer had immigrated to Palestine as a boy, grown up in a kibbutz and fought in Israel's war for independence; he was one of the second-generation "sons of the founders," who, Rabin promised when he became Premier 32 months ago, would give the country new direction. In a sense, Ofer's suicide was a kind of political verdict on that generation, especially since it followed rumors that he was under investigation for possible embezzlement and other charges. Although there was no firm evidence that the accusations were true, they added to the aura...
...pretentiousness of the film itself doesn't help matters. Welles looms onto the screen at the outset, his stupendous bulk cloaked in a magician's cape, pulling pennies out of a boy's mouth and making keys disappear. Next he jumps to his editing room, where he's making movie magic--cutting and splicing a documentary about another sleight-of-hand expert. Hungarian art forger Elmyr deHory. But also about deHory's biographer. Clifford Irving, a hoaxster in his own right. Have it straight so far? F for Fake is thus a cinematic illusion (movie), directed by a renowned beguiler...
...Editors: Your cover picture [Dec. 20] is amusing. It coincided with my concept of President-elect Carter's present status-that of a little boy who learned to swim in mud holes and is now about to jump into a big pond, having no stump or overhanging branches...
Shiftless Schemers. The Japanese bear no grudge against Pinocchio himself, who in Collodi's tale is afflicted with disabilities enough before achieving his dream of becoming a flesh-and-blood boy. Their objections focus on the book's two ne'er-do-wells, the Fox and the Cat, shiftless schemers posing as mendicants who are lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either?he ends up thin, almost hairless...
...Mathieu returns to his factory, the camera returns to the philosopher's statue, suggesting that little has changed, that these idealists will never put their dreams into effect. Only their hope for a future world will sustain them. And a shot of Jonah in 1980, a small boy scribbling on a now-faded mural of the lunatic group, confirms that hope--he turns an impish smile to the camera, his rosy cheeks promising that somehow the future may be different...