Word: noon
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Perhaps I should have realized that the lab was not the place for me at lunchtime on my first day of work. At precisely 12 noon, I joined the rest of the lab downstairs at the university cafeteria. To my horror I found only some oily substance resembling beef (which, at the time, I would not touch) and overcooked oily potatoes. I thought I was not being too demanding when I said all I wanted was a simple sandwich. Little did I know.... I ended up in a nearby bar with a very large, very oily tuna sandwich. I brought...
Like the cocky Americans it portrays, "Purple Noon," a recently re-released 1960 French thriller, succeeds because of its ability to disconcert. Disconcerting is the premise of the film itself, that French actors speaking French and dressed in French clothing can somehow seem American if given American-sounding names like "Tom," "Marg," and "Freddy." Disconcerting is Clemote's use of the Italian setting, on which noon-strength sun gnaws, leeching color from sails, crumbling villas and driving everyone pretty much mad. Most disconcerting, certainly, are the mesmerizing eyes of Alain Delon, who, as the poor but desperate Tom, is able...
...really, the end of the world is what "Purple Noon" brings to mind, a desperate era in which violent hatred and adoration amount to the same thing, where one person is interchangeable with any other, and most characters are, like Marg, the helpless victims of the machinations of stronger or more clever people. Yet "Purple Noon" never seems gloomy or disapproving of it's protagonists' mutual assured destruction. The potency of the film is undiluted by moralizing or even the sense that the story is being "told" from a certain point of view at all. The story of Philipe...
...more in the way of clerical work than was originally advertised, but my days are rarely boring. The pace is often dizzying, accelerating as deadlines loom and crises arise. At 11 a.m., a guest will be added--setting the office into a researching frenzy--only to be dropped at noon. In the morning, I typically spend about half my time tracking down articles, scanning headlines for interesting stories, photocopying, filing, faxing and messengering...
Trapped in the lull after April's Olympic trials, the Eight are going a little bonkers. Buschbacher has them on a crushing workout schedule. Seven days a week they get to the boathouse at 7 for a morning practice that lasts until around noon, with one short break. For a few hours in the afternoon the women return home to eat and sleep, then they are back by 4 for a two-hour session. When they are grounded by the weather, they use the hated ergometers, or rowing machines. Their goal at night is to make it into the double...