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Godard has always needed to know how people think about the real things and events of their experience. Masculin-Feminin (1965) included a crude attempt to find this out directly: one sequence had Jean-Pierre Leaud go around Paris asking housewives sociological questions. Significant though the confusion of their resources seemed, it only invited the question, What do these women actually mean? or, How are they using language? That's the question Leaud and Berto now realize they must answer before they can know anything else. First they decide...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: Godard's 'Le Gai Savoir' | 10/27/1970 | See Source »

...analysis Godard needs so he can reach sure knowledge of the real. His desperation for experiences of the real will not let him accept delays; but on the other hand his rationalism will not let him follow a shoddy line of analysis. Le Gai Savoir, far from being a crude propaganda film, absolutely refuses to move beyond the separate and minimal truths about film that it reveals. This refusal kept him from adopting a "correct" line before 1969; since then it has made him constantly redefine his Maoism...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: Godard's 'Le Gai Savoir' | 10/27/1970 | See Source »

Just Plain Crude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Line Between Pun and Punishable Getting Thinner at the Bandroom | 10/14/1970 | See Source »

...idea is clever and well-presented, we approve," Pittenger said. "But when the formation is just plain crude and not disguised, we have to step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Line Between Pun and Punishable Getting Thinner at the Bandroom | 10/14/1970 | See Source »

...Rutgers show the Band wanted to announce a course, "Women in Social Uplift: a course designed for a bunch of boobs." The Band thought it was a clever pun; the administration decided it was crude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Line Between Pun and Punishable Getting Thinner at the Bandroom | 10/14/1970 | See Source »

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