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ROSEMARY'S BABY. Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion) has left both dialogue and chills virtually intact in the movie adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller about a devilish pregnancy. Mia Farrow's performance as the beleaguered wife adds an extra dimension of shuddery reality...
...long since gone beyond the anti-philistinism in vogue a generation ago. The targets of his satire are not bankers or genteel folks or even working-class reactionaries. He occasionally slips and lambastes tourists, drug visionaries, religionists, or minor literati, but these stabs are part of that flashy knife play that is little more than a come-on. More seriously, he does not bewail alienation or urbanization or sentimentality or the impossibility of communication, except tangentially. He does not decry violence or promote idealism. He is not interested in politics. A fag is no more worthy a subject than...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion) has left both dialogue and chills virtually intact in the movie adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller about a devilish pregnancy. Mia Farrow's performance as the beleaguered wife adds an extra dimension of shuddery reality...
...precision and penetrating power of laser beams have, as predicted, given them entree to the operating room, where they can cut into human and animal tissue as delicately as a finely honed scalpel. Even better, the laser knife does not draw blood. Its searing but highly localized heat cauterizes capillaries and other blood vessels as they are severed. Like ordinary light, laser beams pass through transparent substances but are absorbed by darker, opaque materials. Thus they flash harmlessly through the cornea and lens of the eyeball to weld a detached retina back into place, or puncture small holes...
...flophouses. Some men mingled with drunks along the downtown Tenderloin skid row. Several housewives spent a day just sitting in the Greyhound bus terminal, where they saw weary, worried mothers board buses with broods of children to start life somewhere else. Other poverty students vicariously shared the pain of knife, gun and mugging victims in the emergency room of the County Hospital, or walked the brawling bar beat with patrolmen. Shaken by their experiences, the students retreated for a day of barbecue and Fourth of July fun at the Franciscan Order's comfortable Casa de Paz y Bien (House...