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...Enfants du Paradis. Three hours of sharp, cynically witty scenes add up to a fairly pointless, very French film made during the Occupation (TIME...
...between Raymond Chandler's novel and the screen of the neighborhood theatre all mention of pornographia and nymphomania--the specific subjects of the original--has been trapped in the meshes of the Production Code. What is left of the Chandler touch is the dialogue and the general aura of pointless brutality which has distinguished other films of the Cain-Chandler genre...
...many Crimson ball-players showed promise on Saturday that singling out individual starts would be pointless. Coach Dick Harlow, in his post-game interview, was especially pleased, as were the spectators favoring his eleven, with the vast improvement in down-field blocking. On some of the sweeps which produced touchdowns in the second half, the blockers were so devastating that the ball carrier could have jaywalked his way to the end zone...
This is the Harvard whose president argues the necessity for social scientists to dissect American institutions "as fearlessly as the geologist examines the origin of rocks," who knows the merit of "pure" science and thought but decries the pointless "thrashing over old straw" which often passes for scholarship...
...much as peeked out of the window. They compared their art to music, which seldom has tangible subject matter either; talked about "reverence for the materials" (meaning paint and canvas, which could be controlled) instead of nature, which was too big and too confusing. They invented rigid, severely pointless patterns...