Word: hora
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...window. Lest Jenny spoil her surprise party by entering unannounced, her 16-year-old sister Lillian is poised to intercept her. But Lillian's alertness is premature. An hour passes with muffled laughter and continuous conversation. Though guests were sternly warned to be here at seven sharp, the easygoing hora peruana ("Peruvian time") prevails. An hour and a half later only a few more guests have trickled...
...trumpet recorded especially for the wedding. Then, to the melody of a flute song, Daria, in a purple velvet Navajo dress, walked to the bridal canopy designed by her father, Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin. After the ceremonial crushing of the wineglass under Hopper's foot, everybody danced a hora to the traditional Hava Nagila-arranged for guitar and Congo drum...
...sort of an instant history of the Jews, from Abraham to Moshe Dayan. It is pretty damned skylarky for a people that wept beside the waters of Babylon and have undergone agonies of tribulation throughout their existence. The music is homogenized rock international, and the dances are United Nations hora. The girls are smashingly good-looking, probably the most fetching chorus line we are likely to see all season. If any one of them opts to stay in the U.S., she can make some deserving swain a very happy...
...Godard maintains, the immediate image is merely "the reality of the reflection," an ambiguous appearance that could have been caused by anything (including the camera), that leads to no clearer understanding of "reality" because it neglects answering the question "why?" So what about La Hora de los Hornos? How do its documentary images treat the question of causality and discredit surface verities...
Believing in the redemption of physical reality, then, is not at issue in La Hora de los Hornos, since no such feat is attempted. The images generally stand in a disembodied, figurative relation to the sounds doing the analyzing. Rather than extending these specialized intellectual principles into a Godardian dialectic within every element, Solanas chooses a sign system appropriate to his own country's situation, images most intelligible and applicable to the practical revolutionary concerns of the oppressed...