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...Sonja (Diane Keaton), an arouseful little blouseful who confesses that she has been faithful to the male population west of Minsk. The lovers are poor but wretched, living only on snow and an occasional treat of sleet. To relieve the chill, they engage in those favorite occupations of Russian novelists, the epistemological debate and the religious monologue. "Socrates is a man; all men are mortal; therefore all men are Socrates," concludes Boris. It is this kind of syllogism that moves him to assassinate Napoleon, an adventure that ends, of course, with the wrong man slain. No matter. A celestial sign...
...derives from the position of the town on the water line dividing Europe in half. North of the watershed, he says, all rivers flow into the North Sea; south of the divide, they flow into the Mediterranean. Poised between the warm Latin countries on the one hand and the chill Teutonic lands on the other, the town belongs to neither--it lies in the middle of an uncommitted, non-involved world...
...release for the States, a process that takes at least four or five days, the Vietnamese are left on the roadside to wait for buses to their flights, families sharing lines of cots stacked like beach chairs, sitting for hours under the scorching sun or waiting through the long, chill nights to be picked up for their next destination...
...counter-Bicentennial. The thousands who shouted slogans outside the Old North Church while Ford spoke inside divided their anger over a variety of issues, from support for Israel to opposition to aid for Turkey to venom at busing in Boston. The crowd of 30,000 braving the wet chill night in Concord was gathered for the ostensible purpose of "sending a message to Wall Street" in protest of big business. But it was clear from the carefreeness of the crowd that they were more interested in listening to favorites by Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie than in making any political...
Like much of Antonioni's work, The Passenger uses eerie and voluptuous imagery to define a condition of spiritual paralysis. His is a chill world, ordered and mysterious, where hope hardly abides...