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...Bowman, probably dead (if we are to interpret make-up in conventional terms) finds himself in a room decorated with Louis XVI period furniture with fluorescent-light floors. He sees himself at different stages of old age and physical decay. Perhaps he is seeing representative stages of what is life would have been had he not been drawn into the infinite. As a bed-ridden dying man, the monolith appears before him and he reaches out to it. He is replaced by a glowing embryo on the bed and, presumably, reborn or transfigured into an embryo-baby enclosed...
...this final act a fine representative sample of the best and the worst contained in the European Absudist tradition which informs it. Hamlin's performance evokes in Vian's dialogue and situation meanings of the grandest sort: the contraction of the future, the falsification of memory, the decay of language, the failure of human potential, and the persistence of human dignity. Yet the movement of the act in which this content is implicit seems to lack internal discipline, to meander where focus should be asserted, to court nonsense and boredom for their own sweet, seductive sakes...
...progress of the play is really the gradual zombification of Morley as physical debility betokens his psychic decay. He develops a limp, then cannot stand up at all as his arms and legs go rigid. Sitting mutely in a chair as if immobilized by a stroke, he seems to live only with his eyes, which roll in a fine frenzy as his latest financial coups are related to him by the omnipresent Spaatz. The time inevitably comes to get divorced for tax purposes, and then Morley kills himself-for tax purposes. In a final scene of immense sadness and gravity...
...another reason. Some have vanished (like Hawks' Scarface, produced by the ubiquitous Howard Hughes, and all 35mm prints of Ford's Stagecoach) and the problem is one of location; others, like whatever remains of Stroheim's original cut of Greed, are in serious danger of destruction by decay. Until the last decade, film was made from a nitrate base, both flammable and subject to erosion. The film archivist works against time: the older the film, the more likely the chances of physical degeneration -- and the chance of its vanishing forever in a pile of dust...
...responsibles" who were distorting the truth about the urban schools and imperiling reasonable hopes for improving them. A visiting professor of urban education at Fordham University, Havighurst argued that outraged accounts of ghetto education are convincing the public that the schools are in a state of inexorable decay. In fact, he answered, today's city schools are superior to those of 1920, 1940 and 1960. Their textbooks and curriculums are better designed, their teachers are better educated, classes are smaller...