Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson drove off the line powerfully, with a minimum of roughness, and quickly opened up a small lead. By the mile flags, they had a half-length on the Argonauts, but the British crew was raising its stroke to a frantic, punishing 41, gambling the race on its ability to pull even during the final 550 yards...
...SWORD LINE can carry the weight and win, PRINCESS VAL is ridden by hot apprentice R. Casey, LIGHTNING STORM...
...narrates romantic music swells and dies, at times covering her speech. The two characters' imperviousness to this, as to the physical beauty of their setting (stressed by the camera's motion), becomes more pointed in a ten-minute continuos track which follows their car as it passes a line of autos stopped on the highway. The horns that assault one throughout the scene act on them only as low-level irritation. When they come on the front of the line and discover that a car wreck (corpses strewn on the bank) is the cause of the delay, they simply accelerate...
...violent attacks on the audience through presenting raw events, the meaninglessness of characters' actions, the blatant anti-capitalist propoganda of Weekend do not show Godard committing cinematic suicide. His integration of subject matter and approach demand this treatment. To critics who see Weekend as the end of the line, one must mention Les Carabiniers, a film that uses moral imbeciles in just the same way to attack war. Its events are as senseless and brutal; its plot as much as skeleton device that barely holds the film together (the characters' journey through alien rural setting becomes very boring); its characters...
Just hop on the MTA to Park Street, transfer to Government Center, and take the Airport line to Suffolk Downs, Admission is $1.50 and hotdogs are 40 cents. Post time for the first race...