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...that moment, the future of the city and its artistic heritage seemed uncertain. The water was everywhere-soaking into the fragile wood of old carvings and panel paintings, expanding its cells and cracking it, seeping up inside walls and working outward through the surface of their frescoes, causing bloom, mold growth and discoloration, flaking the surface of porous stone like puff pastry...
...spirit of an artist. A short subject accompanying Playtime shows him to be generally observant and thoughtful, not only about his own film making but also about the world around him and the people with whom he shares it. Unfortunately, he lacks the artist's talent to mold and shape his insights into truly engaging works. This film-made in 1968 but delayed in release here until a satisfactory 35-mm. print could be made from his 70-mm. original-is almost as stupefying as his more recent Traffic (TIME, Jan. 1) and ranks with...
Each of the University's training programs are designed to enable employees to progress to higher job, wage, and productivity levels. "The University doesn't want to force employees to remain in a mold for 30 years," Lee said. "Its concern is that it's making a better way of life for those who want...
...tames her will in obedience to her husband's just as she squeezes the extra flesh on her figure into a corset too tight. She practices unnatural posture to fluff out her husband's public pride, and she compromises the sticky edges of her personality to fit into his mold of ideal femininity. To wheedle money out of him, (she lacks, of course, an income of her own) she performs a child's trick of jumping up and down squealing like a partridge distraught. It is a disturbing picture--a woman denied her womanhood cannot grow up. So she resorts...
...movie admits no more than a turn of the century secret: Nora's education in a system of sexual power that admitted no equality has cast her identity in a mold of submission. But in conceding this so generously, the movie attaches a seventies' relevance to a decades' old truism...