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Malle's characters are always cleaning themselves, washing their hands, trying to rid themselves of the soot and the smells of their city. In the film's opening shot, Sarandon goes through a ritual of purification that appears like a refrain through the movie: to remove the fish-smell from her body after her workday as an oyster-bar waitress, she squeezes lemon-halves over her arms, shoulders, chest and breasts. Dingily unerotic, bathed in orange light, the sequence seems more satanic than baptismal. It distills the almost misanthropic repulsion towards this city that guides Malle's direction: nothing...
Goodfield's second romantic image is revealed by her quoting the aphorism of Rousseau "Hypotheses are the revelation of genius." For Goodfield, pure ideas and intuition are the stuff of research, the rest is technical, petty, routine and boring. But the refrain "ideas are cheap" is quite common in labs. Experiments, data. techniques and results are the requirements for ideas. the true ingredients of successful science...
...specially built auditoriums, hotel foyers and offices. In a weapons course, computer-controlled cutouts of possible assassins and harmless citizens pop up from the ground and twirl past windows on a Hollywood-like back-lot street of mock buildings. The agents must fire and hit a threatening target but refrain from shooting at an unarmed figure-or at the image of a woman wheeling a baby carriage, who may quickly slide in front of an armed figure...
...matter of settling back into their easy chairs to tune into the Oscars. And, eerily, as the ceremonies got underway, the familiar glitz and glamor began to resonate with echoes of the previous day's tragedy. "Hooray for Hollywood," sang the chorus-line that opened the show and their refrain became a bizarre theme-song for the events of the day before; there really was a lot of Hollywood mixed in with the shooting of President Reagan, and it all seemed to come together at the Academy Awards...
...American freedoms than last week's draft proposal. Interestingly enough, Ronald Reagan, then a private citizen and former Governor, was a member of the presidential commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in 1975 that recommended many of the present restrictions. The commission's conclusion: "Presidents should refrain from directing the CIA to perform what are essentially internal security tasks...