Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Religious symbolism is an undercurrent throughout the film. Crosses abound: the final overhead shot of a cross-roads, a photograph ripped in the shape of a cross, Luke sprawling crucified in a pit-grave...
Quick to the pit not past, darling, we verge...
There are those who hold that the World Series is one of the most exquisite tortures devised by man. Take two baseball teams, put them through a grueling, 162-game pennant race, then pit them against one another in a short, four-out-of-seven series with the world championship riding on the outcome. No wonder the hapless Los Angeles Dodgers committed six errors in one game last year, three of them by Outfielder Willie Davis. And yet more often than not, all the fierce pressure produces some of the year's best baseball and brightest heroes...
...OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. Novelist Griffin specializes in dramas that pit military discipline against moral imperative, and this World War II sea story is his best...
...pit, a rock-'n'-roll quintet, its sounds brutally amplified, screeches and howls. The dancers enact their love ritual, while a filmed psychedelic view of their actions is projected-elongated, distorted and weirdly colored-on the wavering backdrop. "This is what we're doing," the action in the foreground seems to say. "And this is what we feel we're doing," proclaims the film. At the end, passions spent, the man walks through the billowing drop and out a series of backstage doors; Astarte recedes into the shadows, awaiting her next visitor. In his new Astarte...