Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piety for cinders is a half-way thing...
When Alexander first opened here, you had to stand in line for twenty minutes to half an hour in order to get in. The lines aren't quite as long now, and if you haven't seen it already, you should. In fact, even if you have seen it, see it again; on this film, there's no diminishing marginal utility...
Saturday morning Leander met Harvard, and after a brief early lead, the Crimson rowed the remainder of the race from behind. Harvard stroked smoothly and hard, Leander, an experienced crew well known in England, stroked beautifully and won by two and a half lengths...
After she dances several days later he meets her backstage; the space is similarly deep and filled with decorative objects (props stored from old shows). A curtain-rope swings across his figure, then on the backswing half-way across her, linking them while it indicates the fixity of his position and character (including his advanced age) and the semi-fixity, two-way pulls, or hers. He proposes to her: the rope stops swinging, motion ceases, and again the film nearly ends. But her favorable answer begins the swinging again. Both times a "miracle" has overcome the setting's threat...
...this, it's essential that we are seeing flashbacks, not Lola's actual life. The "wooden" Lola of the flashbacks is at least half the circus Lola, an almost dead woman. In her memory decor assumes tremendous evocative weight, the context assumes power over the characters, and events are more nearly frozen memory-images than continuously moving points of an evolving life...