Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recurring images that will dominate the film's visual dimension: a close-up of the doubt-ridden psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Burton) musing about the complex case of his teenage patient Alan Strang (Firth), and a darkness-clothed scene of a naked Strang standing beside a horse, the object of his near psychotic obsession. Lumet fills his lens with Dysart's ruminating face, punctuating the narrative with the Shakespearean soliloquies of the confused shrink. At times, these infrequent monologues border on the histrionic, as Burton casts off the necessary restraint of a film star and takes on the exaggerated inflections...
...small New England village's behavior. Living in an unheated shack with his mother, an educated alcoholic and lesbian, and surviving on welfare checks and the regular gifts of one of his mother's former lovers, the teenage boy stood out in alls Village, Conn., as a likeable object of pity and concern...
...most sustained effort at social comedy. But his stylistic idiosyncrasies are geared to convey energy rather than reflection. The gaudy array of types who tumble through Dar cy's life are more remarkable than remarked upon. The works of Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh provide an object lesson here: if the subject of a novel is manners, the writer must be on his very best...
...majority of students want a checkoff on their term bill for PIRG or any other organization, that alone is sufficient cause for instituting it. Should not we as students have the capacity to assess ourselves for an organization we support? People who feel the term bill is a sacred object which should be kept inaccesible to those who pay it may disagree. But a failure to respond to the expressed preference of the majority, when it is costless to the university and non-binding, is an arrogant denial of students' rights. Mary E. Babic '81 Timothy G. Massad...
...controversial for the average reader to react sensibly to. The emphasis shifts from reporting the news to sifting the news. These journalists see themselves in a position to responsibly cooperate with powerful officials to makes sure the masses never learn too much about policies the public might object to, but which are, nevertheless, for their own good...