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...movie, director Sydney Pollack has kept the action almost entirely within the seedy California beach-side dance hall where the novel's marathon takes place. The film covers 60-odd days of the spectacle in two hours-and, after it's over, all sixty days are real to you. The color is sickly; the machinations of the contest are unbelievably brutal; the physical and emotional crack-ups of the participants are staggering and sometimes all but impossible to watch...
Wade H. McCree Jr., JD '44, of Detroit, a judge at the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; Louis H. Pollack '44, Dean of the Yale Law School; DonaldKennedy 52, professor and chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University; John Jay Iselin 56, vice-president of Harper...
...cannot help but hate and love the film at the same time. An unfortunate ending and about five minutes of execrable dialogue about the point-of-it-all mar the work-but the rest of the movie makes it easy to forgive the mistakes. The director is Sydney Pollack. Jane Fonda, hard as nails, and Gig Young, con man par excellence, give devastating performances...
Devoid of motivation and imprisoned in the dance hall, the movie hungers for some message from the outside world. The contestants are soon reduced to figures without a landscape, whose despair is often expressed but seldom reasoned. Even Director Sydney Pollack seems to sense the claustrophobic atmosphere-and he restively punctuates the nonhappenings with slow-motion scenes and rapid flash-forwards. Seldom effective and much too mannered, they serve only to bring the wrong kind of poverty to the project...
...Nagin is a short, funny story about a visit to the Fogg. In the Modern Art Room Rocko and the Narrator meet an employee who "wouldn't givya a nickel" for the $70,000 Brancusi wood sculpture Caryatid, which he calls Mrs. Murphy's Bedpost. He calls a Jackson Pollack "that horror over there" and says it was hung on its side last month, but he likes Olitski's Ariosto's Kiss because the "painting seems to move." They visit the Persian Rug Room twice, but the rugs are on the wall, roped off. They get to the Oriental Room...