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...feminist filmmaker with a rather bizarre sense of humor. Her short film, Menses, supposedly takes a wry, comic look at the disagreeable aspects of menstruation. There are, indeed, a few amusing moments in it, but for the most part the film consists of naked women standing on a hilltop, legs spread apart, with a most unusual, watery, lurid pinkish substance gusing down their legs. The humorous highlights are a mock communion scene in which codeine tablets are taken in place of wafers and menstrual blood is drunk in lieu of wine, and when some woman with a sanitary napkin hooked...
...remains. In the years following World War II, Butte had a raw look because it was a boom town. Today it is shabby because it is dying. For the past two decades, the Anaconda Company's immense Berkeley pit has been slowly nibbling away one section of the hilltop city after another. Now the pit, a gaping, terraced ulcer 7,200 ft. long, a mile wide and 1,500 ft. deep, has begun to eat into the town's business district. By 1985, say some resigned residents, Butte as a city could simply cease to exist...
...Jackie is his one true love and he blubbers out a proposal -marriage, kids, the whole number -that reveals him as more sensitive than he ever could, or should, be. Jackie turns him down and departs for Acapulco with her rich investor. George is left on a small canyon hilltop with a beautifully sad Paul Simon melody underscoring his dubious desolation, inviting sympathy at what should have been the richest joke...
South Boston High's physical plant further hampers learning. A four-story brick fortress built on a hilltop in 1901, the school offers a magnificent view of Boston Harbor. But the library is only slightly larger than an ordinary classroom (and holds only about 4,500 volumes); the gym is large enough for just one basketball court-with five feet to spare; laboratories are generally ill-equipped...
...young girl with the grocery list of lovers and the rock star torn 'twixt licentiousness and reflection sometimes join the new landowner to worry about the isolation that comes from first-class travel and hilltop mansions...