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...various subjects of discussion are much the same as those of any Harvard dining hall: comparing savings banks, rating the previous night's dinner, talking about upcoming parties. But every so often, an anomaly breaks through the chit-chat. "Are you still compiling compilers, or are you indexing indexes?" "Aren't you ignoring some fundamental premises of feminist criticism?" "You're in bargaining theory at Minnesota? Do you know..." "I turned down three job offers to do this. And I'm still not going to stay all the way through--I'm leaving a year early to join the Harvard...
...young men from The Whiskey, who turned to me. "Alexis' sister?" he asked, "don't you like the plum cake? You're not eating anything." Except for the presence of the servant, I felt particularly at ease with this mildly pretentious intellectual crowd and their coffee-table chit-chat. The sun pouring in the window relaxed the guests, who sat on ottomans around the black grand piano...
...bizarre close-up of that very bizarre film star, Shelley Duvall. Duvall wears her exquisitely vacant stare--deep eyes beneath wispy bangs looking vaguely pre-Raphaelite. This is a fan magazine for people whose sensibilities are affronted by the lack of subtlety in run-of-the-mill collections of chit-chat with the stars...
...lover to spite her husband, but somehow Burstyn comes on like Dinah Shore trying to play Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. The performances, however, are really peripheral to Resnais' fascination, haunting insights into fantasy, conveyed both in the movie's dialogue and in its visual composition. A chit-chat review cannot do it justice; see it, and discuss...
Issues discussed varied widely, ranging from chit-chat about acquaintances back home to intense debates on current problems...