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...movie misses, too, the air of real panic and urgency of, say, 8½. Truffaut means, instead, to convey the consuming romance of the film-making process. Several sequences do break through to some intensity: Cortèse's muffing of a simple scene that starts comically and turns, with each of the actress's false starts and flailings, into a cameo of desperation; the director's dream recollection of his youth, when he sneaked down a street late one night and stole some Citizen Kane stills from outside a theater...
...film grows bleary, however, over the tenderness and eventual sorrow of the relationship. Director-Writer Arthur Barron, though adept at catching the surfaces and undertones of mildly affluent New York life, indulges in a kind of high-calorie sentimentality that seems itself adolescent, without being able to convey the real turbulence and anguish of adolescence. He glazes Jeremy over with winsomeness, and seems to demand that it be liked for its own slightness and vulnerability...
...impossible to adaquately convey the horror I felt when I walked into the dining room in building 25 for the first time that Wednesday. Forty-five children were seated around linoleum-topped tables waiting for one of the attendants to come by and feed them. They were moaning and screaming, rocking back and forth, stinking of urine and feces and I was vaguely nauseous, overwhelmed by the desire to run away. My first and only thought at that time was, "My God! These things can't be human...
Although the majority of the gestures are obscene, many serve to convey respectable and useful information. If, for instance, a man in Saudi Arabia kisses the top of another man's head, it is a sign of apology. In Jordan and three other Arab countries, to flick the right thumbnail against the front teeth means the gesturer has no money or only a little. Bedouins touch their noses three times to show friendship. In Libya, it is customary for men to twist the tips of their forefingers into their cheeks when speaking to beautiful women...
While I often discern in your pages good reasons for my antipathy to Harvard, I am also grateful for the faithfulness with which you convey a sense of the University in the diversity of its surface....It is good at times to get an intimate look at fashion in the making, even when fashion has no appeal. --Robert S. Bart in a letter to the editor...