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...titles of the three theses were: "Strength and Wealth: Dostoyevsky's Bionic Hero or Six Million Ruble Man," by K. Brothers, Princeton class of '82, "Liquification and Deconstructionism. The Image of the Blender in Proust, Flaubert and Joyee," by Petrarcha Checker '85, and "The Naked Eye and Other Images of Obscenity in 'I Am a Camera' and 'The Eye of the Needle," by Ansel Hansel...
Tracking Shot #1--A checker Marathon rolls down the Mass Pike Extension toward the Brattle. In it is the pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater. Most of the traffic is headed toward Boston. At the toll the pedestrian in the sweater hands a quarter to a toll collector who barely acknowledges...
Tracking Shot #2--The pedestrian in the black coat walks out of a dormitory, passing a group of students in front. All nod, seemingly out of habit. The pedestrian walks over to the checker Marathon which has now pulled up in front of the dorm. The car is parked and they walk to another dormitory where the woman in the windbreaker is waiting, and then they continue until they reach the point where they are again walking past the Brattle, talking, with one looking up at the airliner...
Years later, FROT gave way to GARP, resulting in honking by tailing motorists and notes under the windshield wipers. Recalls the motorist: "It was like driving around with a sign on your head." The big, blue '78 Checker and white '79 Volvo now in the driveway carry impersonal numbers. The old green and white vanity plates hang at casual angles on a small shed at one end of Irving's swimming pool...
...writer of stage thrillers who has not had a Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript by doing in its author. During the filming of one scene, Cannon leaned toward Caine and whispered that he reminded her of her former husband, Cary Grant. Replied Caine: "I hate being taken for granted, but never mind...