Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaw and Colburn are feeling and running better, but injuries are still bothering Bob Seals and Dave Pottetti." McCurdy said yesterday. Seals has been suffering recently from left hip pains, which developed after a knee injury cleared up. Erik Roth and Charlie McCormick are also at less than top speed because of ailments. All are expected to run, however...
Ultimately the film is weak because of the very faults of the cool medium that Wexler wants to criticize. Film is supposed to be a hot medium. McLuhan tells us; that is it's a total experience. Medium Cool is less than a total experience: we can really feel the editing, the presence of the director, and the techniques he's using. It's full of dialogue hanging over from a just finished scene or anticipating one to come, and overly arty shots of the boots in the mud of Tent City-all used without much purpose. And, like...
...that Wexler expects the events to tell us that media lie rather than expressing it through the humanity of his characters. To have a boy love pigeons and dream of the old golden fields of West Virginia is a filmmaker's cliche of true human value. Wexler is clearly less at home with people than with the news events, himself. With this in mind, it's easy to understand why he arbitrarily ended the story of his characters with violence, and then turned the camera on his own movie crew before...
After the meeting, Dean Ford admitted he saw a considerable amount of rancour among the Faculty, although he added that some of the splits of last Spring now seemed less sharp...
THAT FLAW in the exhibition is forgiveable since the entire show was assembled in 41/2 weeks-something of a record for a display of this sort. A less forgiveable oversight is the scarcity of background information both political and scientific, accompanying the rocks...