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...brothers leave for the city when they are flooded out, and on the way Macunaima bathes in a magic fountain which turns him white--and into another actor. This white actor goes through several changes of hairstyle, which as far as I can tell have nothing to do with either plot or political significance, and which typify the director's casual attitude to details. During several crowd scenes some of the extras look more interested in the camera than in the antics of Macunaima, and when Macunaima dies, bloodily, in a stream, a rubber hose can dimly be seen pumping...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Macunaima | 7/14/1972 | See Source »

...offered at some 700 universities, junior colleges and adult education centers. Tens of thousands of Viet Nam vets have become serious about photography after buying expensive 35-mm. cameras at big discounts in the Far East. At rock concerts and in youth hangouts from Central Park's Bethesda Fountain to California's Santa Monica beach, there are almost as many camera straps as headbands in evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Polaroid's Big Gamble on Small Cameras | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...reading: "Develop a thirst for printer's ink and quench it by reading, for from books flows the fountain of youth found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Very Few Words | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

Until recently a visitor to the track locker room in Dillon Field House could marvel at the hardware in the trophy case by the water fountain. But space in the case has been slowly increasing recently. In Philadelphia on Saturday the Heptagonal team trophy, one that used to adorn Harvard's case regularly, remained in Penn's possession for the second straight year...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Penn Wins Heptagonal Title; Crimson Thinclads Place 7th | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...ceremonous unfolding and folding of a large cloth, a less mechanical and more suggestive device than a curtain for marking the division between the presence of actors and the progress of a play. William Barnum's slow and deliberate opening mime as the Old Man at the elusive fountain of immortality does more to set the scene than the other actors are later able to maintain. Barnum and Wally Know as the Young Man (Cuchulain), use thir mature voices to form a firm center of dialogue in a production that's otherwise weak in intonation and uncertain in supporting roles...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Three By Yeats | 3/30/1972 | See Source »

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