Word: closed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a key to the system's inner logic, it is in the environment's response to changes of mood. When Colin feels ready to fall in love, doors begin to close "with the sound of a kiss on a bare shoulder," and the air turns sultry. This environmental adaptability is all very well in the first half of the book, when Colin's main preoccupations are his love for Chloe, for Duke Ellington's music, and for the gastronomical delights concocted by his cook. But when Chloe falls fatally ill the atmosphere of light and luxury changes...
...Army with 41, handed the Harvard varsity many of its early-rounded losses. At 123, Bruce Goodman was beaten by eventual third-place finisher John Balmat of Penn in a 4-3 decision. Bill Wasserstrom (130) was eliminated for medical reasons, and at 152, Bart Harvey lost a close match to Ted Oulette of Cornell...
...weird, excessively detailed scenes are the most fun. You keep finding an unexpected figure under a tree or a crow in the sky disguised in the dark linear pattern. These ambiguous details emerging from the shadows tantalize they eye and draw the viewer into the scene for a close look...
THERE ARE in fact two basic sorts of shots in the film. The first, described above, shows the land alone or with figures integrated into it, part of its order. The second is a close shot of one or more people, showing little more than their faces. The dramatic function of the long shots is to show people carrying out these close-shot decisions. Given he strength and singleness of their human passions, the long shots have a quality of fatality. This quality accounts for the film's feeling of determinism, of lack of choice, as the drama proceeds...
Brooks hopes that today's events will produce more points than yesterday's as the Eastern Seaboards come to a close. Krause, former world record-holder in the 1650-free, will be swimming in his specialty, and Bill Murphy is favored to win the three-meter diving...