Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...birthday, and as the film opens we see him planting a tree on the beach with his son, Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist), attended by the local postman, Otto (Allan Edwall). The opening shot is awesome--10 minutes long, sustained and uncut, the camera moving with snail-like fury closer and closer toward the central characters. By the time we see their faces, we're desperate to, hungry to; Tarkovsky knows how to engage his audience: it's two-parts hypnotism, two-parts bread and water...
South Africa's system of apartheid sets up homelands, like Bophuthatswana, where Blacks may live. If Blacks have a job in a white urban area, they may live in a township, like Soweto, an all-Black settlement closer to their jobs. But there's not enough housing in the townships for all those who need it, so many Blacks live in illegal squatter camps...
...Crimson (3-0 overall, 3-0 ECAC, 2-0 Ivy League) led the meet from start to finish, taking the first two events and never allowing the Bruins to come closer than a 10-point margin throughout the contest...
...Cadets have their big Navy meet this weekend, so they'll be ready for the Crimson. And, although the Harvard-Army meet may not be as big as the aquamen's meet with Princeton in February, it promises to be closer than the squad's first three meets of the 1986-'87 campaign...
...longer Van Gogh stayed in Provence the closer he thought he got to its "essence": its high tender color and sometimes violently modeled forms, its archaic antiquity and, above all, its light. In Arles the initial shock of the landscape, impacted in citron and chrome yellows, had dominated his palette. But once he was inside the asylum at Saint-Remy, a different and more reflective way of looking at the landscape around him took over. "What I dream of in my best moments," he wrote, "is not so much striking color effects as once more the half-tones...