Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think Chicago could click because they have not had an inside threat," he says. "Cartwright is one of the better players in the league playing with his back to the basket...
...follow you into airports and onto airplanes. We are photographers, bending over your mother to snap a picture of you as you sit sullenly by the window of the airplane. Your eyes, Ben, are big and brown and sad. Click. Scream, Ben, it will make for a better picture. Click. Or cry, Ben. Crying will make for the best picture...
...Click. A world-famous director rehearses one of Strindberg's plays. Suddenly policemen appear in his theater to arrest him on charges of tax evasion. His bowels weaken and he must make a lengthy, humiliating trip to the water closet, with a cop posted outside the door, before going to confront his accusers...
...Click. A youth is lured into a mortuary by the attendant, who locks him up with the corpses. One of them is a beautiful young woman. The boy lifts the sheet from her body. As he gazes upon her she seems to come alive. Terrified, he races for the door, now open. She is the first of the demons that will haunt his reveries and his work for the rest of his life...
...Click click click. The central figure in all these vignettes is the real- life Ingmar Bergman, and never has an autobiography been more aptly titled than The Magic Lantern. For it is as if the great director, whose passion for the transforming power of the vividly projected image was first stirred by the paraffin-lamp projector that was his favorite childhood toy, is rummaging through a boxful of old slides and throwing them on memory's screen in the order they come to hand, without pause or transitional comment...