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Kamikaze Foxes. Communists sometimes gather fireflies in glasses for illumination. Occasionally, they carry owls to the perimeters of Vietnamese outposts: to superstitious Vietnamese, the hoot of an owl is a dire sign of impending disaster. Back in the days of guerrilla war, some Viet Cong outfits even trained kamikaze foxes to make a beeline for light at night, then sent them off into well-lit U.S. and Vietnamese installations, carrying explosives and a timer on their backs...
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (unpublicized in the Brattle brochure) is a masterpiece, occasionally faulted by tedium. Directed by Robert Enrico, the film was first prize winner at Cannes in '62. It is a half-hour tour de force, wordless but never silent...
...Walter Thompson, who quietly announced last week that he was going into early retirement. Closing out a 40-year career with the world's largest ad agency, Strouse wanted no fanfare and got none. From his corner office he sorted out personal belongings, which include 100 owls in a collection started in the days when a wise old owl was J. Walter's trademark. Strouse had a final cup of coffee and a last cigar with colleagues. Then he took a "down" elevator to Manhattan's Lexington Avenue and headed off to a retirement house in Northern...
...ferry, a little girl's wicker basket is accidentally knocked overboard by a passenger. Like the owl and the pussycat, she and a young boy go to sea in pursuit, navigating their inflated raft by a primer-simple map of the six continents. When they want to go to the Red Sea it turns out to be red; the Black Sea becomes black. At last they arrive at a place where, the girl complains, "they forgot to color the water." An island rises from the clear waves, and the voyagers suddenly find themselves beached in a magical, adult-free...
...stone farmhouse behind it which serves Miró as an annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child's toy ladybug, a rock with an owl's face drawn on it, the skeleton of a bat, the mummified body of a cat, a twisted wagon tongue, a piece of the rudder of a fishing boat...