Word: revealed
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Having seen and covered more than my share of Harvard events, I have many memories, but most of them have nothing to do with the actual athletic competition. Following, then are a few of the memories which come quickly to mind, and which probably reveal my feelings about sports far more eloquently than I could do myself...
What Vian was driving at is not entirely clear. Like Harold Pinter, and even more like the novelist Franz Kafka, he creates a world in which more questions are raised than answers given; in which words often conceal rather than reveal meaning; in which, at the end, mystery is not clarified but rather intensified...
...attention paid to continuity and (truly superb) rhythm in its editing. Coonradt instantly establishes the premise, Jane's struggle to maintain a diffuse personality against her singularly insensitive room-mate and the other girls in her dorm, with an opening shot of Jane outside which surprisingly pulls back to reveal the other girls inside. Equally powerful in its economy is Jane's first assertion: the girls run en masse upstairs and Jane follows trailing a flight behind them; we think she is following them but she turns right to her room instead of following the girls left...
...hard to criticize Mr. Moss for his attempt. It may well be that a production truly rooted with Vian's text would only serve to reveal its inadequacy. In any case, the effort to impose a special directorial vision on a play of dubious relevance is as admirable as it is misguided. And this is certainly not the place to question at length whether the horrors of American commercialism can really be satirized by any art work which chooses to borrow the terms of commercialism rather than create terms of its own. Mr. Moss's product is certainly worth...
Despite the warning of its publicity sheet, after detailing the plot till within minutes of the end, that "the shocking conclusion of Planet of the Apes will not be revealed in any synopsis," the following synopsis will find it necessary to reveal the shocking conclusion: Three American astronauts zip through space and crashland on a planet where men are mute animals and apes are civilized. The one survivor (Charlton Heston), makes his own intelligence known to a female sociologist and her fiance (Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell), who provoke a veritable Scopes trial in reverse, at the end of which...