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...spent my years in Birmingham, Alabama visibly frustrated by the city's all-too-prevalent bigotry and rigidity. Southerners, I had decided, rely too much on form. They cower at the appearance of change without examining it. So coming to Harvard was phase one of my personal divorce from the Southern identity-until I got here...
...toward the camera. One camera angle, very long takes, sufficed to show this depth. Now, though, Lang keeps cutting rapidly to different angles within each cell, every angle sticking the characters flat against a blank wall. These cells' only depth leads into corners where Mabuse's raving victims cower...
After living with these attacks for the past year and watching the poor Vietnamese cower in terror, I am convinced that the Communist world has the ear of the world press to the exclusion of all other views...
...year is 1971, and the scene is Bergman's favorite symbol: an island off the coast. There, a violinist named Jan Rosenberg (Max von Sydow) and his wife Eva (Liv Ullman) cower in their farmhouse, waiting out a civil war that rages on the mainland. It is a truism that in many childless marriages one of the couple assumes the role of the baby. In the Rosenbergs' case, it is Jan, cosseted and petted by Eva during his incessant tantrums and irrational fears. Infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering, afflicted with a bad heart and a sick psyche, Jan lives...
...either a villa at Zlatá Idka near Košice or a country lodge in the High Tatra Mountains. In both places, the Soviet leaders could easily beckon Russian troops who are tarrying in Eastern Slovakia. However close the troops, Dubček certainly did not plan to cower or apologize. Instead he hoped to take the offensive himself at the outset. The Czechoslovaks have some grievances of their own concerning Soviet domination of both the Warsaw Pact and the COMECON economic community...