Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bourgeois," she tells him. "Yes," he murmurs sententiously, "a bourgeois lost in the arts, an artist with a troubled conscience." The story peters out with Tonio in Denmark, daydreaming on the beach about blonde Inges and brunette Lisavetas, and a life of lonely reverie. He is trapped, he thinks, "between sanctity and lust...
...style is no substitute for substance. Most of what made the original story compelling-Tonio's long, self-probing speeches to Lisaveta and his conception of the writing man as both artist and bourgeois, free spirit and square-has been so compressed and truncated that it is lost in the snail's-pace atmosphere of the film. The result, unfortunately, is not so much Mann as it is mannered...
Soft sucking lips kiss my left armpit: a coiling kiss on myriad veins. I burn! I crumple like a burning leaf! From my right armpit a fang of flame leaps out. A starry snake has kissed me: a cold nightsnake. I am lost! -Nora...
...Harvard undergraduates--who lost their student deferments after turning in their draft cards at the Arlington St. Church rally on Oct. 16--will take their pre-induction physical examinations today at the Boston Army Base...
Some good acting gets lost in Nichols' vain attempt to prove himself a purveyor of cinematic pizazz. Bancroft and Hoffman are more capable than the script or direction allows them to demonstrate: Bancroft disappears altogether, and Hoffman is forced into too many blankfaced ambiguous close-ups. Katherine Ross's perfect pre-Raphaelite beauty overshadows her valiant attempt to create something from nothing, an attempt which almost succeeds (as if it matters whether anyone so gorgeous can act). The Graduate's best performance comes from Murray Hamilton as cuckolded Mr. Robinson, an all-too-tangential figure in the proceedings...