Word: framed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Demme continually focuses on emblems such as the American flag and the crucifix that Dallas Angel sports. It is clear that Demme denounces a society where the CB unavoidably becomes the vehicle of perversity, yet these issues cannot be compatibly explored within the rest of the film's comic frame. Demme reaches a formidable cul-de-sac, so he returns to highjinks, ending Handle With Care with Papa Thermodyne whooping it up by riding cattle...
...first kneel to remove your shoes in the vestibule. The shoe removal is required of everyone who wishes to enter a Hare Krishna Temple. The height of the devotee who greets you is magnified as he stands before oak-paneled walls. A vertically lined robe drapes his slim frame. He looks down and grins...
Movies still are pretty much a national virus, and to people who really love them, "Citizen Kane" is the item to measure the others against. It's such a self-conscious work that every frame lectures the viewer on film and stagecraft both--and even though its technical precocity makes it something of an exhausting film to watch, you want to watch it over and over after it's finished. "Kane" is the object lesson in American movies--in itself, in legend, in its tradition. It's not the starting point, but the center around which everything else moves...
Frustration and anger must have prompted the authors of "Minority Recruitment" (Feb. 21) to frame their article in such aggressive language. But shining through their abrasive prose were legitimate questions about Harvard's minority admissions and minority recruitment that need to be addressed...