Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most effective fashion: at the beginning the screen is predominantly dark, with two bright accents only on the left and on the right; when this pictorial stasis reaches a motionless peak, the movement (of the characters) within the frame changes the composition and brings the shot to an end. The conversation between Allen and his friend (Michael Murphy) in the classroom (executed by the shot-counter-shot editing principle)clearly illustrates how an inanimate object (skeleton) can be inventively included within the stationary shot composition, creating irrepressibly humorous reverberations, which are both complementary to the dialogue and contrapuntal...
This pattern of sequential order is carried out throughout the film-a rhythmic progression which, step by step, builds up the dynamic pace of Manhattan. Like a series of visual vignettes culled from a personal log (Allen calls them chapters), these sequences begin and end abruptly: the opening conversation between Allen and his girlfriend is, we immediately realize, a part of an ongoing relationship, while the closing conversation leaves us, as well as Allen, in a quandry; will they meet again and what will be the denouement of their romance...
Others, including the leaders of an election year drive to end city-wide rent control, disagree. "Condominiums are the best things that have happened to this city in years," Richard Fraiman, president of the Cambridge Home Owners and Tax- Payers Association, said last week...
JOHN WAYNE died a week ago at the age of 72. He fought a long and courageous battle with cancer; he called it "the big C," and said he had licked it. But in the end "the big C" licked him back, hard. When he died John Wayne was almost completely hollow, empty, like those shells of cicadas you find sometimes in the summer. His body had become an objective correlative of his mind...
...bookstore, described by owner Miriam Donovan as one of the East Coast's only dealers in scholarly religious material, can stay in its 6 Holyoke St. location until the end of the month...