Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cassavetes is determined to present here an epic chase of lost opportunities, and in his celebration of friendship, he squeezes the last drop out of all the old good-time virtues. The beginning of the film delights in physicality. There is a long vomit sequence that, for all its sordidness, perfectly expresses the emotions at the end of a two-day drunk. Vomiting is Cassavetes' simple but apt metaphor for twenty years of marriage suddenly become twenty years too much...
That night, a great full moon flooded the federal city, bringing with it a sense of calm and beauty that has hardly been noticed in a decade. In the gilded salons of Georgetown, in the musty hideaways of the Capitol, in the big, comfortable homes of suburban Chevy Chase, they talk about what is not happening in this land: the absence of campus upheaval and ghetto terror. There is agreement only about the national calm...
...else could uncover a Central American conspiracy linking the United Fruit Co. and B'nai B'rith? Who else could resist the sensual, calculating Israeli agent Judith Hertz ("You have the body of a goddess but the soul of a devil")? Who else could interrupt an African chase to lecture streetwalkers in Lourenço Marques on the evils of colonialism...
...were, they could have taken a disastrous turn." With the obvious connivance of the British, who have provided Oman with high-level advisers since 1898, the young prince plotted his father's overthrow. The coup was quick and occurred completely within the palace: a brief gun battle, a chase through the corridors and Said, 60, was off to exile in London...
...disclaim any desire to monopolize the CRIMSON's Letters-to-the-Editors column, for just today (Jan. 27th) you kindly carry a longish correspondence from me; but to-today's CRIMSON reports an address by Dr. Chase Peterson, Dean of Admissions in Harvard College, to a group of "Jewish faculty members," and I, along with other Faculty members with whom I have spoken, consider this report extremely disturbing. For my part, the perturbation is two-fold...