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...film broadcast to millions of Soviets showed charred railroad cars without windows lying at odd angles amid twisted tracks and broken railroad ties. The area was blackened and barren as though it had been bulldozed, a stark contrast to the plush green of trees dominating the landscape...
...after taking a beating from some of the farm hands, the flies swarm about his soiled T-shirt. Here and throughout the film, the viewer gets a very real sense of the poverty in which he and his father live. And the juxtaposition of this poverty with the plush interior of Lasse's house in the following scene brings the viewer to a heightened awareness of their living conditions...
...yuppies leading the way. New converts chalk their cues like old-timers and gladly shell out up to $10 an hour for tables, as classical music and the latest in jazz and rock play in the background. During the past 14 months, Manhattan has seen the opening of four plush pool palaces catering to upscale players. The Billiard Club, which opened in August and takes in an estimated 1,500 customers on weekends, has a downstairs Safari Room, where players shoot pool amid zebra skins, mounted sailfish and a stuffed bobcat. In Boston, Jillian's Billiard Club has a private...
...must have been insane. All I ever found in the plush surroundings of the Spee, the Fly and other clubs were new ways to kill time. And new ways to compromise my views as a feminist, a liberal and a human being. But as long as these clubs continue to exist at Harvard, there will always be good, well-intentioned men and women who will be seduced by the scene, and by its facade of grandeur and tradition. But as anyone who knows anything about final clubs can see, this appearance is a farce, a feeble attempt by insecure undergraduate...
...morning of Commencement, Tercentenary Theater will be carpeted with plush grass, lined with orderly rows of thousands of chairs and equipped with a sound system comparable to that of the Boston Garden. But the ostensibly simple and elegant organization belies the hectic planning and preparation that has strained many of Harvard's resources in past months...