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What it sees becomes a far-out, uptight and vibrantly exciting picture. Blow-Up is the first movie made in English by Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni, the most sensitive and profound of cinema's anatomists of melancholy (L'Avventura, La None, Eclipse), and in the film he risks a screeching change of creative direction. His earlier films inhabited languid interior landscapes and unfolded with the large, slow motions of the soul; his new movie makes the London scene with a Big Beat abandon that almost shakes the film off its sprockets. But the change of means does...
Married. Juliette Greco, 39, French actress (The Roots of Heaven) and far-out chanteuse; and Michel Piccoli, 40, new-wave leading man to Jeanne Moreau and Jane Fonda; both for the second time, in Verderonne, France...
...Commitment. The columnists are equally skillful at exposing far-out leftists. They have devoted column after column to the black-power machinations of S.N.C.C., and they convincingly defended Sargent Shriver in his effort to take the Mississippi poverty program out of S.N.C.C.'s hands. "We have a very, very low ideological commitment," says Evans, who takes pride in the fact that the column cannot be identified with any political party or doctrine. "We are resolutely middle of the road," says Novak...
...computers went awry, so did some of the newscasters assigned to analyze their output. NBC's Robert MacNeil, anxious to help fill in the empty minutes, dredged up the results of preelection polls to make a far-out analogy between California's New Leftists who voted for Reagan and the German Leftists of the 1930s who voted for Hitler on the theory that he would soon collapse. In a more jocular vein, MacNeil explained that Democrat George Mahoney had lost in his bid to become Maryland's Governor because such traditional Maryland Democratic voters as David Brinkley...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A huge surrealistic puzzler-or possibly a parable-about goatish activities on a far-out college campus that represents the modern world...