Word: projectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jokes. Standing ramrod-straight in a business suit, Gothard lectures with few gestures, fewer jokes, no vocal theatrics and as props, only an easel for sketching and an overhead projector that flashes charts and lists of "Basic Steps" or "Root Problems" on a screen. Yet his hearers sit in rapt attention, jotting in thick red notebooks. Half of the listeners are in their teens or 20s, half are older couples, mostly white Protestant and middle class, eager for packaged help on the woes that afflict modern American families. Thousands are so enthusiastic that they take the course a second time...
...collection of all this material, a dull six-week job enlivened only by the occasional breakdown of the projector or a lunchtime basketball game, is a prelude for Simla's key off-season job: rewriting the offensive and defensive scripts. "To get the clutter out of our playbook," explains Shula, "we have to scrap plays that don't work. If we didn't do that, our quarterback might go into a huddle in a crucial situation, unknowingly pick a flawed play out of the playbook he has memorized, and we could lose." Counting variations on basic tactics...
Sounds like someone's got an eye for the main chance. If the Harvard population were the American public, then W. Donald Brown '74 of Eliot House would be Sam Goldwyn. Brown wrote, directed, shot, edited, appeared in, even ran the projector for Counterpoint at a showing the other night. But mostly he produced it. Brown got an original loan of $400 from the Eliot House entertainment fund. Then he sold shares in the film to 42 students--sending a prospectus to friends in Cambridge, in Eliot House, in the Hasty Pudding Club--to pay his creditors back. Brown even...
...projector starts and the screen stays black--we hear a "haunting," "exotic" flute and soon the clatter of oxen's feet. After an interminably long time, the camera finds the cattle, and immediately pans in on the cloven hooves scuffing through the dusty soil. Thereby Rooks has introduced what turns out to be a major motif in the movie--feet. The film's fascination with this part of the anatomy is endless. When Siddhartha pads solemnly through the forest in search of you know what, we become familiar with his dirty toes. And when Siddhartha has 'crossed the river" (this...
...this were not enough cause for wonder, the Delta 2000 is hooked up to a little slide projector filled with schematic diagrams of the utility systems used throughout the University. When something goes wrong, all the attendant on duty has to do is to push a specially coded number into the computer's logic system and the diagram pops onto a television sized siren that sits next to the computer console. Without leaving his seat, he can see what's wrong...