Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extensively cover Letelier's activities. He notes how Letelier and his wife then became subject to harassment--"They would call up Isabel Letelier at night and say, 'Are you Orlando Letelier's wife?' and she would say yes and the voice would say, 'No--you're his widow' and hang up." And Orlando Letelier was continuously "observed" at lunches and meetings...
Harvard-Yale. The very words conjure up an image of monumental athletic confrontations. And when you consider that the outcome of the 1978 Eastern League tennis race may very well hang on today's match at New Haven, and that the Crimson is still doing a slow burn after Yale's shocking 5-4 upset last year, well, you get the picture...
Before the march, its organizers had predicted a turn-out between several hundred and 1000 protesters. No one had been prepared to handle a crowd of the size that ultimately assembled in the Yard at about midnight. Equally important, many of the United Front leaders had seemed to hang back, debating over who might take the responsibility of announcing a sit-out. The best solution, some decided, would be for the demonstrators "spontaneously" to stage a sit-out on their own, without any single leader putting his or her neck on the line by urging the crowd to participate...
...movie--leaving Violet being and leaving us wondering why she did it, and where we missed something. Less self-explanatory still is David Carradine's portrayal of the photographer-suitor, Bellocq. When he first intrudes on them the house madame calls him an "invert"--he begins to just hang around, looking less like a sinister voyeur than a dazed peanut vendor at a ballpark. The scene where he finally admits his love for Violet lacks both preparation and emotion: I'm all yours, Violet," he says--but Carradine doesn't seem to be all there. Occasionally he is testy...
...WOULD BE much easier to be charitable to this film if the subject did not have so much potential-- and if Malle hadn't seemed the perfect director to handle it. Of all contemporary French filmmakers, Malle has been the most subtle in his treatment of sexual hang-ups and societal perversions. It would have been hoped that he could do with our cultural inhibitions about child sexuality what he did with the incest taboo in Murmur of the Heart. Or that with his genius for cinematic austerity he could have conveyed the every-dayness of this sort of corruption...