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...first-year student in film school. Antonioni's two protagonists are simply archetypical symbols of what Antonioni believes to be American youth. Mark (Mark Frechette) is a cool, angry college revolutionary who is "on a reality trip." Consequently, he rejects a marijuana joint offered him by Daria (Daria Halprin), a free-floating young Los Angeles secretary who prefers music to politics...
Mark, who seems to have shot a cop at a student strike, has stolen a small private plane and winged off to the California desert. Daria is taking a leisurely drive to Phoenix to meet her boss (Rod Taylor), who also seems to be her lover. These ambiguities remain unresolved and irrelevant; what matters is that boy and girl meet, love and copulate in the desert, accompanied by 35 couples (and two triples), who writhe in the gypsum in awful parodies of sexual ecstasy. "I always knew it would be like this," sighs a sated Mark as he and Daria...
...Oooh," squealed the girl behind me, "Is that Daria up there? She looks just like a monk!" Daria was onstage looking like a monk because she was dressed like a monk, and about fifty other girls surrounded her dressed like monks and witches and jesters and knights, and some were even dressed like girls. Down in the pit there were more girls, playing piano, flute and trumpet. Off in a corner, hiding behind a bass and a drum set, were the two lone boys in the production, vastly outnumbered and probably terrified. The Wellesley Junior Show, a combination...
Doll's House. Then came an even harder personal blow. Pregnant with her first child in 1943, Cinemactress Tierney went to the Hollywood Canteen to entertain the troops, almost immediately afterward came down with German measles. In the often-expected result, her newborn daughter Daria was physically beautiful but so mentally retarded that she will require lifetime institutional care...
Gene Tierney, blue-eyed cinemactress and mother of a ten-months-old daughter, Daria (her husband is Army Lieut. Oleg Cassini, peacetime Hollywood dress designer), confided to New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson that she was "crazy about strong smells," added "I like to smell babies. Now there's a smell that ought to be bottled...