Word: counterpointing
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...better year for Harvard filmmakers. Frank Mouris '74, a former VES lecturer, won the Oscar for best animated short subject with his autobiographical "Frank Film," made at Carpenter Center. W. Donald Brown '74 showed his full-length "Counterpoint" to packed houses at the Science Center in March, and brought out "Robin Hood" in May. Brown's promotion and financing methods suggested an entrepreneurial skill rather rare among Harvard filmmakers--most of whom content themselves with making short films which few people see--but his movies didn't live up to the expectations he aroused...
...Brown's Robin Hood, at 8 p.m.; and Counterpoint...
...films by W.D. Brown III '74. Counterpoint, at 8 p.m., and Robin Hood...
...guests of the Mississippi Economic Council when he predicted better days ahead for the nation (see THE PRESIDENCY). Nixon was scheduled to address a group of Republicans in Phoenix, Ariz., this Friday and attend the opening of the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane, Wash., on Saturday. In counterpoint last week a largely youthful crowd of 7,500 people, many bused in from other cities, marched peacefully down the capital's Constitution Avenue demanding Nixon's impeachment...
Clayton does take a shot at a little easy irony now and again - like using the song Ain't We Got Fun as counterpoint to the drawing-room tragedy. But he is as captivated by the bounties of wealth as Gatsby was, and spends endless minutes gliding his camera around expensive rooms or across the crowded floor of Gatsby's galas, all staged with a certain lavish clumsiness. This gives the film a numbing, punishing quality, as if everyone were trapped at some purgatorial party that will never end. At a running time of close to 2% hours...