Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alas, the context in which Russell sets these performances is obtuse to the point of caricature. Did Gaudier-Brzeska have a mistress? Then she must be a pneumatic and witless art groupie (Helen Mirren), daughter of a landed cavalry officer, who does her obligatory nude scene on the staircase of an immense, frigid Adam country house; she must also be a suffragette, which gives Russell much opportunity for lumpen-sexist travesty by having her do a song-and-hop number about votes for women in a nightclub and then, at Gaudier's demand, drop her knickers onstage. Around...
Peter Cowle, British film critic, will lecture on the Scandanavian film. Its European context, and Bergman's Hour of the Wolf in particular, Tues., LEHMAN HALL...
...Crone. Eric Crone, three-year varsity quarterback and two-time winner over Yale. In the seven games that Harvard has played to date, Crone has started at quarterback six times. In every game that he has been at the helm (excluding the B.U. context, which was like scheduling Wellesley High) Harvard has been unable to mount a sustained and consistent attack...
...stereotyping becomes so prevalent, and the types grow to be so different, that eventually the richness of the play seems to lie in these border areas. It becomes concerned with the human condition, in a broader context, which is where in some ways the Loeb's production breaks down. Too often the minor asides fail to transcend their immediate surroundings. Their impact develops the situation's comedy, but it does no more than that. Recognizing the more convoluted and profound complications of a comedy without sacrificing its comic aspects, is not the task that George Hamlin sets for himself...
Auteur critics will probably find Haas's camera angles impersonal and they are, each character being framed only in apt context. What we are sensually drawn by is the terse editing, the stylized settings themselves, and a set of performances impeccably unified in their theatricality...