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Godard uses the closeup at the end when an inspector asks Miss Goya what she will do now that her boyfriend is dead (a silly accident) and she's pregnant. Miss Goya repeats in a still voice, "I don't know"--her face almost expressionless. The effect is ambiguous, exactly like the end of Breathless. Is she finally touched by something outside herself? I don't think so. This is the closest she will ever be to having her self-containment shattered. But it can't be shattered. And just as her non-involvement protects her from an awareness...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Anderson Platoon." A harsh but compassionate study of young Americans at war produced by Pierre Schoendoerffer for French TV (TIME, Feb. 17). This is a closeup of Captain Joseph B. Anderson, 24, a West Pointer and a Negro, as he leads his soldiers through the Viet Nam war in the fall...
...Debris. Orbiter 4 was even more informative. Its overhead and closeup picture of the Humboldt Crater-located at the right edge of the visible face of the moon and difficult to see through terrestrial telescopes-suggested to Astrogeologist Harold Masursky that the crater is "very young" geologically and was probably created by the impact of a meteorite only a few million years ago. The event was so recent, Masursky believes, that the floor of Humboldt is still gradually rising. This "isostatic rebound," as he calls it, has produced an obvious fracture in the crater floor-evident for the first time...
FADE IN ON CLOSEUP of worried executive...
...every film he could, and in 1909 he established and managed the first movie theater in Dublin. In composing Ulysses, the enormous, erudite and scandalous masterpiece that is one of the few great novels of the century, he consciously employed the techniques of cinema: long shot, closeup, flashback, dissolve, montage. The cinematic character of the novel was excitedly recognized by moviemakers, and down the years some of the best-among them Sergei Eisenstein and John Huston-have unsuccessfully undertaken the prodigious labor of getting Ulysses off the page and onto the screen...