Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like the Manhattan, the Macdonald has a rolling system that shifts the vessel's balance from side to side, freeing it from imprisoning ice. The Canadian ship can also do a heel-and-toe roll, which the tanker-three times its size -cannot. This was the Macdonald's twelfth excursion into the Arctic, and it has never been stuck. Each time ice closed in around the Manhattan, the Macdonald cleared a channel beside the tanker, leaving the Manhattan room to maneuver into the clear...
...credit card away should have visited Ohio State University last week. There, with all the aplomb of executives signing for an expense-account lunch, student after student stepped up to the bursar's desk during registration, pulled out a shiny Bank-Americard and announced: "I'd like to charge it on my credit card, please...
...Reality is distorted and logic becomes madness in The Ritual, Bergman's most nightmarish fantasy since The Silence. In the claustrophobic office of some anonymous bureaucrat, three actors (Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek and Gunnar Böornstrand) perform a bizarre masque, part psychodrama, part sexual charade. They are like the mummers from The Seventh Seal or the circus performers from The Naked Night imprisoned in an allegory of doom. Inevitably the object of the masque is death. But the dramatic value of the ritual itself is disappointingly slight, giving the entire film an air of anticlimax. There are episodes...
...Susan Sontag's prose style is laborious, her film making is absolutely benumbing. Duet for Cannibals, which looks alternately like a third-rate Monogram thriller and a dirty soap opera, has something to do with a young man who gets a job as secretary to a paranoid politician. "He's full of fantasies of persecution and disaster," the lad confides to his mistress, who eventually winds up in bed between the boss and his crazy wife. At film's end, characters die and are reborn again with a facility that suggests that Director Sontag is not without...
...pace through the long series of events that eventually led to his conversion to Christianity. It was the end of the Great War that disgusted him with a godless humanity. On the night when victory was celebrated in London, Muggeridge saw "for the first time what human beings were like when they cast aside all restraint -shouting, grimacing, flushed in their jubilation. The scene with its apocalyptic flavor," he continues, a trifle apocalyptically, "recalled to me vividly the lurid Dore illustrations in an edition of Dante's Inferno among my father's books." He took to brooding...