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...olden times, the Brattle had a recording of the 1812 Overture, which was at least close to the proper emotions for a Bogey festival, but this fall, the horns will sound the spaces between the theatre's showings of Hiroshima Mon Amour, Black Orpheus, and even Can-Can. Variety is required: for the first of these three, Norman Dello Joio's Air Power Suite would no doubt suffice; a few bar's of Gluck might enliven the second; and Offenbach is the only answer for the third. Certainly other suggestions are possible, but continuing the present entr' acte offerings...
Kiloton, a unit used in measuring the energy of a nuclear weapon, is equivalent to the energy released by the explosion of 1,000 tons of TNT. A megaton is equivalent to 1,000,000 tons. The Hiroshima bomb was a 20-kiloton bomb...
...begins a motion picture called Last Year in Marienbad, easy to smile at, difficult to understand, the work of one of the most acclaimed directors in modern cinema, the New Wave's Alain Resnais. Like his masterpiece, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, the new film compresses and realigns conventional treatment of time, making a looping bow of past and future and knotting it down on the present. Leaving relationships vague, carefully avoiding the usual structure of cause and effect, it tries to force audiences to interpret the story for themselves. Last week Marienbad was named winner of the 1961 Venice Film...
...suspicious earth movements, but Russia insisted three were enough. "You cannot sneak spies into our bedroom,'' cried Nikita Khrushchev. In one compromise after another, the U.S. agreed to 17, then twelve, in hope of reaching agreement. The U.S. even consented to let Soviet scientists examine early, Hiroshima-type U.S. bombs in one projected plan for joint scientific research. In any case, Moscow's delegate needed no treaty at all if Moscow could prevent Western testing simply by staying at the conference table, for both the U.S. and Britain had agreed to a year's moratorium...
Seeking a Scare. This meant a device of at least 100 kilotons (five times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima), exploded neither underground nor in outer space, but probably mounted on a testing tower or dropped from a plane. It may have been a new, compact warhead for an ICBM missile like...