Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season ended with the notorious "O" club initiation, a ritual for all first-year varsity lettermen. The initiates were ordered to crawl backward for fifty yards with "grapes up our asses," forced to drink menstrual fluid, and constantly shocked with battery-powered cattle prods. Coaches observed these activities to ensure that the proceedings "didn't get too sadistic...
Easier said than done. The biggest hurdle, Loomis says, was to find a reusable flushing substance: "We needed an oil-like fluid that was lighter than water, that would be readily separable from water and that had a very low solubility for most components in human waste." The perfect product turned out to be very like one that was in the bathroom cabinet all along: mineral...
...funny, affectionate cafe conversation during which a film intellectual says flatly that "the dolly shot is a moral statement." By such a playful standard, Bertolucci would be Pascal. No one since the late Max Ophuls (Lola Monies) has moved the camera quite so exuberantly, and with such easy, fluid symmetry. Such a luxurious style can sometimes weigh heavily on the material; in The Spider's Stratagem it complements the material, indeed reinforces it. Tara, its name recalling Gone With the Wind and conjuring up phantoms of romantic fiction, is turned into a single huge stage set on which...
...while, the small town of Keng Kok in southern Laos seemed relatively safe from war. There was a fluid "front line" ten or 12 miles away, patrolled by troops of the North Vietnamese Army's 29th Regiment. They were reckoned to pose no threat to a town with only a market, a hospital and barely 5,000 inhabitants. In the early morning hours of Oct. 28, Keng Kok's immunity suddenly came to an explosive end. Two North Vietnamese companies, aided by local Pathet Lao allies, slipped into the town. Two missionaries trying to escape in their pickup...
...than during the opening work. Smiling, and with more confidence, he conducted an exquisite performance of Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2, the second of the two orchestral suites that were drawn from Ravel's complete ballet. While conducting, Mehta became the personification of the music--his arms were fluid and graceful during the light, airy passages in the opening of the Ravel, and then became tense and stiff when the music demanded rhythmically exact cues to the orchestral players. And Mr. Mehta, like the legendary Arturo Toscannini, conducts from memory--without a score. This allows him even more freedom...