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...examining the nature of photography, Antonioni carefully injects another theme, the more basic conflict between illusion and reality. The first scene of Blow-Up introduces the photographer as he leaves a flop-house where he spent the night; we learn that he had gone to photograph the sick old men who sleep there. This personal preference for social realism over fashion proves the photographer dedicated. But in photographing the tragedy and problems of other people, the photographer in Blow-Up substitutes this for an understanding and eventual solution of his own problems. The reality of the photographs becomes the photographer...
Then last Saturday Brown played its worst game of the season and lost to Army, 3-1. Wednesday the Bruins went to New Haven and clobbered Yale, 10-5. Encouraging for Harvard is that the two good games were away, the flop was at home...
...satire called Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. And guess who introduced young Kath to Producer Stanley Kramer in the first place? Noting the family resemblance, Kramer cast the girl, whose previous experience included two TV shows and an ingénue's role in a Broadway flop, as Katharine Hepburn's daughter...
Cries of "Yes! Yes! YES!" greeted the first entry in the aerobatics division, as the plane mounted to the ceiling in an intricate ascent. But its glory was short-lived, for it flip-flop-flapped cumbersomely to the floor. John Pesando and Bill Tennant's tosses, however, both had flashy curves, and the two were asked to repeat their throws...
...auto parts. But it was an assassin's bullet, not dollar pressure, that brought him down. Cuba's Fidel Castro, with massive support from Russia, has managed to survive six years of U.S. embargo. U.S. pressure to cut off all trade with Red China was another notable flop: Canada alone in the past six years has sold Peking a whopping $926 million worth of wheat...