Word: sc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombastic ballads about love and loss and even larger issues, such as old age, war and redemption. Brel is not modest, and neither are the people who honor him here. The songs have lots of volume but no energy or pith. The film's notion of mise en scène is to have one number-about sons-staged in front of a trio of crosses from which dangle three uncomfortable youths...
...Chabrol's self-appointed mission to heighten our awareness" of these struggles by presenting them in an admittedly exaggerated, stylized manner, a manner that deliberately jars against his utterly realistic mise-en-scéne. There are moments in his movies in which be lief in what one is seeing threatens to dissolve into laughter, but there are many more in which we are shocked into a new awareness that beneath the surface of ordinary-looking lives, high dramas of genuine moral dimensions are being played...
...versions, both by virtuoso conductors and virtuoso orchestras, that go to the top of the list. To choose between them is difficult. Davis' elegant approach is underlined, and undermined, by Philips' lusciously veiled, soft-edged acoustics-and by a splitting of the slow third movement (Scène aux champs) between sides. London gets the movement all on one side and still manages to provide stunningly robust sound that is ideal for the now diabolical, now serene, always aptconjury of Solti, the winner...
...team managed at last year's meet at West Point, and it put Harvard in 16th place in the standings. Pre-meet favorite Indiana holds a comfortable lead over second-place Southern California. The Hoosiers, closing in on a sixth consecutive national title, piled up 107 points to SC's 81 and host Tennessee...
...both captain Fred Mitchell and Rich Baughman swam slightly off their best times in the trials of the 500-yd. freestyle and were not remotely close to qualifying. John Kinsella of Indiana took the event for the third straight time, holding off a late challenge by Jack Tingley of SC...