Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carrying bamboo poles and clubs swooped out of gray-painted buses waiting on a nearby street, shouting "Halcones! Halcones! -Falcons! Falcons!" It was the first real show of force by the Falcons, an organization of antistudent, antileftist goons, mostly in their 20s. Their bloodcurdling war cry is likely to echo throughout Mexico for some time to come...
This opening dance-low-keyed, understated, elegant-is followed, without a pause, by a dazzling choreographic sequence of episodes that sometimes deliberately echo each other, but never quite repeat. There is no story line, only a progression from simplicity to sumptuousness, from youth to maturity. In the early variations, which have about them an air of soft, bucolic wonderment, the dancers appear in pastel-shaded practice clothes. In the final scenes, which call upon the full resources of the huge cast (49 in all), they are resplendent in Baroque dress...
...squawks, beeps and hums that tell them more about the universe than the eye can see. In the past decade, radio astronomers have made a host of discoveries: quasars, pulsars, free-floating molecules in the lonely reaches between the stars. They have even detected what may be a faint echo of the original Big Bang, the great explosion that some scientists think marked the creation of the stars and galaxies...
...attempting to rape the survivors of a napalm attack on a village. Pulling his carbine's trigger, he observes with curiosity the jerking marionette-like motions of his victims: "It never ceases to seem incongruous that real guns make only a vague clack rather than the bang and echo represented in movies," Receiving the Cross of Gallantry, he returns to the States...
...film is also infused with a Michel Legrand score that is at once appalling and appropriate. Its romantic attempts to tumble into poignancy echo Francis Lai's Love Story theme, but here the music seems to actually reflect the true excesses of its period. In fact, in the film's climactic scene, Hermie places a big band treatment of the film's theme song onto the phonograph, and, in the wonderful moment that follows, the two realities-that of purported, remembered history and blatant movie artificiality-merge. Like a mobius strip, the film turns back on itself and, for just...