Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston College, which has a 2-0 record after downing Navy and Tulane, is first in both polls though the Eagles edged Dartmouth by only one point, 169-168, in the AP tabulations...
...front of the chops and asparagus each evening, often adding an other hour of thoughtful commentary. No war had ever been covered so thoroughly. No war ever lasted so long, resisted explanation so obstinately, or became so hopelessly opaque in spite of the heroic agitation of television analysis. The point is not of course that TV is entirely responsible for this situation, but that it is responsible to a considerable extent for the special kind of frustration which the war has produced...
...this point that most of us assert our personal ability to resist the Insidious Tube. The reality is that we are all physically contaminated by it, since it represents one of our pathetically few sources of "information." We are corrupted by television even if we have never gazed upon it, for we must live among those who have gazed upon little else. I admit that it is difficult to abstract from those tiny colored images, largely static, to the minds of those who watch TV eight hours a day. Watch Hugh Downs or Ed McMahon punch those Concentration buttons...
Also unlike Rider, Restaurant is incredibly close to earth. Grass is smoked, girls are screwed, and motorcycles are raced, but Penn and his wonderful film editor. Dede Allen, do not point at these things as Dennis Hopper does in the Peter Fonda epic. Nor do we get the glamorized, generalized "real-life" performances of Rider in this picture. Arlo is a natural, uneasy, stuttering Arlo-not a hippie-stud (like Fonda) or a hippie-hippie (like Hopper...
...find salvation up in Vermont, on acres and acres of farmland. She stands in front of their church, in the growing New England afternoon darkness, wanting to believe him. But he has gone and she is not sure. The camera moves around her, approaching her face from every vantage point, trying to show us what Alice's face has to say about it all. And what is her expression as the darkness sets in? I don't know. My mind tells me it's uncertainty, but my heart says it's horror...