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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hunt's opening dream sequences, three naked young blades cower in the deep grass while a pack of chic horsewomen come galloping through the glen. Director Edouard Molinaro thus establishes a theme to justify his title. Then, with stylish clowning, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Rich and Jean-Claude Brialy take out after a galaxy of predatory French dolls in wild, whimsical, aimless and occasionally rather funny fashion...
...Africa II (see opposite page), Rivers exquisitely sketches the features of a native, then juxtaposes it with the flimsy profiles of camels off the cigarette pack and a slunky crocodile. The result is a rough estimate of a dark continent, suggestive like an ominous travel poster, but nonetheless full of color and intrigue. In Dutch Masters and Cigars II, he is producing high comedy rather than striving for high seriousness. Art to him can be puns, quipping conceits between cigars and Rembrandt. Only a delightful puff here and there separates it from thin...
This book is a kind of rural Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, in which nature replaces the church as the force that drives the young man to his destiny. The young hero runs with a wild pack of boys in County Down, a leader in all their hunts and games until he adopts a ferret named Jill. Immediately everybody shuns him because ferrets are believed to massacre barnyard fowl. Stoats are the actual villains, but ferrets look mean, and an array of sinister powers is imputed to them, including the ability to impregnate women. Through his loyalty...
...perform their increasing tasks, computers are developing into formidable adulthood. Computermen claim that their machines are now entering a "third generation" in which the new science of microcircuitry and other advances in technology will enable them to reduce the bulkiness of computers, pack more ability into their frames and make them even more reliable and economical. Computers are now being banded together into "families"-compatible groups of machines, ranging from small to large, that are able to solve problems and perform functions from beginning to end by using a single language and program. To broaden the uses of computers...
...degrading for the pack...