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Last Year at Marienbad. Alain Resnais, the grand admiral of the French New Wave, has produced a movie that is anything but a movie: a metaphysical enigma, a Platonic allegory, a treatise on cubistic cinema that attempts an Einsteinian revolution in the art of film, a Rorschach blot into which the spectator can project whatever he pleases...
...These quasi-mythological experiences, Resnais suggests, constitute a cure for the fashionable malady of unbeing, and to elucidate them he has instigated an Einsteinian revolution of cinema. He applies the principle of relativity to the art of film, as Picasso applied it to painting and Schoenberg to music. The result is true cubistic cinema, in which reality is "dismantled," as Resnais puts it, and reassembled in such a way that it seems to be experienced in every aspect simultaneously - one French critic describes the result as "total cinema." To begin with, Resnais annihilates time by chopping his story into short...
Jones said that he was "doubtful that science will notably change either the nature or the task of art, though it may change expression." However, he said while it is conceivable that the Einsteinian universe is gradually altering the way art conceives of time and space, similar conceptions were an element in French medieval drama, early Christian art, or Greek vase paintings...
...speaks English with a Scottish burr), became interested, worked out a strange but correct theory. When gamma rays pass through water, they hit electrons, and the impact bumps the electrons up to high velocities. The electrons do not move faster than light in a vacuum (186,000 m.p.sec., the Einsteinian speed limit of the universe), but they do move faster than light in water, 140,000 m.p.sec. For exceeding the local speed limit, the electrons are "fined" a part of their energy, which shows up as Cherenkov radiation. Something analogous happens when a ship moves...
...Democratic vote than was true of the national scene. Explains Collingwood, defensively: "After all, Univac is only human-that is, it can only make predictions based on the material that humans feed into it." Collingwood asked an attendant mathematician if he could explain what went wrong, and got the Einsteinian answer: "It may be in the taxability of the K factor...