Word: maze
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Architecture and Art Building on the University of Illinois' stunning Circle Campus in Chicago also stumbled, in effect, over its untied shoelaces. Although Walter Netsch, a brilliant partner at Skidmore. Owings & Merrill, intended to develop an especially efficient organizational layout, he ended up with a devilishly intricate maze. In certain parts of the building, going to the bathroom entails a walk up one flight of stairs and down another...
LAST WEEK, those who escaped the maze of cheap waterfront bars and pathetic serviceman clubs in South Boston, some of the older, "educated" enlisted men who made it across the Charles into Cambridge and liberated territory, roamed the Square and Commons in search of the people they knew would sympathize with their situation and help-by one means or another-ease the pain of their down existence...
...negatives. She replies haughtily: "When I gave myself to you the contract didn't include cinematic rights." To cap the comers-in, in comes Dr. Ranee (Lucian Scott), an official inspector of mental clinics: "I represent our government, your immediate superiors in madness." What follows is a running maze of exits, reappearances, disappearances, mistaken identities, clothes swapping between men and women, and one of those crazy-happy recognition endings that Shakespeare used in which half the people onstage turn out to be long-separated relatives of the other half. Joseph Hardy, who last directed the mutely ominous schoolboys...
...away from the case-by-case routine is to spend time on legislative reform and on test cases. Van Lanckton, the director of CLAO, acknowledges the importance of individual service, but says that legislative reform is more significant. "Rather than simply guiding one individual through the legal maze, we try to change the system and make it more fair." Lanckton said...
...into an arena to fight a man in a minotaur costume. At this point. the film begins to resemble Juliet of the Spirits, but only because the situation itself is so implausible that we look for psychological reality, finding no other. An exhausted Encolpius fights his minotaur through a maze, finally falling down pleading for his life with a line that Fellini must still giggle over: "Please excuse my clumsiness. I am not a gladiator; I am only a student...