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STOLEN KISSES. This exhilarating film by Francois Truffaut catches the glow of its director's warm humor and characteristically gentle insights into the benign folly and innocence of adolescence...
STOLEN KISSES. This exhilarating film by François Truffaut catches the glow of its director's warm humor and characteristically gentle insights into the benign folly and innocence of adolescence...
...with dashing zest. Enamels brighten the statuesque "Zig" (for Ziggurat) series of tilting or semicircular sheets of steel. Nature itself is meant to tint the burnished-steel "Cubi" series. "I polish them," Smith explained, "so that on a dull day they take on a dull blue or the yellow glow of an afternoon...
...most dramatic movie sequences was an astronaut's-eye view of reentry, looking up through a window while the spacecraft plunged through the atmosphere, blunt end down. An orange-yellow glow filled the window as the heat shield became incandescent. Fiery chunks torn from the shield hurtled past the window. Shroud lines could be seen whipping in the wind, and viewers could almost feel the jerk as the or-ange-and-white main chutes opened, abruptly slowing the descent. The scene ended with the sky and clouds gyrating sickeningly, and the colorful chutes appearing and disappearing in the window...
Decline of the Best. As he watches the sun slowly set on Western civilization, Vidal, scribbling his epitaphs in the shape of aphorisms, could hardly glow more brightly. Nothing is beyond his sardonic appreciation: the Kennedys, Tarzan, the 29th Republican Convention, Susan Sontag, pornography...