Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breaking down at almost every level, to a three-year 100% increase in the number of persons on welfare and to skyrocketing taxes levied in order to keep the whole mess of an incompetent administration "moving". Afraid? Who us? Every ten hours in our "fun" city, there is one murder, two rapes, 32 assaults, 62 robberies, 88 car thefts, 198 burglaries and 170 thefts. Three years of Lindsay and there are almost 300 more murders annually than in 1965, 45,000 more robberies and 120,000 more burglaries. We're not afraid-we're terrified. CHARLES J. MYSAK...
...worst moments seem to fascinate Poland's avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki. In his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, Dies Irae (an oratorio in memory of the dead of Auschwitz) and The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke, Penderecki treated mass annihilation and murder with moving intensity, stretching the limits of orchestral and vocal range so far that he had to invent new notational symbols for his score (TIME, Oct. 14, 1966). Thus it was only appropriate that for his first opera he chose as his subject a tale of mass hysteria and political...
...violent outbreaks. An early sequence beginning with one car scraping another ends in a man shooting at the couple. A girl dressed as Emily Bronte, counselling the couple to pay attention to natural forms (pebbles, grass) to find their meanings, is set afire after she declares "End the daily murder! Cover flowers with flames!" In this sequence--as in sequences where they ignore a figure reading Rousseau, and interrupt a beautiful rendition of a Mozart sonata--the characters are merely destroying the cultural background of their bourgeois society. The beauty of Godard's compositions and camera motions in these sequences...
...abysmal lies. Never seen out of his black turtleneck (a cop?) and sports car, he is played for a sexy and rich youth-figure who is persecuted by Vaughan, an evil representative of the Rotten Police Structure. Whatever McQueen does, the picture condones. His bumbling unfortunately amounts to virtual murder--to which his reaction are entirely visceral. Godard at least criticizes his terrorists; this one is rewarded, and the audience is expected to love him for his incompetence as much as the film. At its end, after he has managed to kill off the last man connected with his case...
...Harvard Film Study--"Dial M for Murder" by Alfred Hitchcock, and "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" by Douglas Sirk, Carpenter Center Lecture Hall. Admission...