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Goldstein's bearish presence (6 ft., 210 lbs.) and avuncular manner shield a sternness that repels some students. He admits that he is not one "who wants to give everything the students ask for whenever they ask for it." Still, he has the overwhelming support of the faculty, including Pollak, who says that Goldstein is "one of the great men of American law." Another faculty member views him as "a big, strong, tough fellow who wants to do things, wants to move things." As dean, Goldstein will have ample opportunity to do just that...
...careful and exhaustive explorations of a specific image common to the American romance movie. Set-ups shift continually without returning to a master shot, the camera defining angles that combine car, desert road, and sky in varying dynamic relationships. Antonioni refuses to construct conventional cutting patterns between driver-wind-shield-car-road, and each shot represents 'a separate approach. A fair amount of space between camera and car is maintained, rendering the scenes formally dadactic. By keeping frame elements in fixed proportions, he creates a symbiotic force between camera and car, physically drawing the car forward or in some cases...
...light works were also shown, and my favorite was Takis's "Anti-Gravity," To use this, you press a foot-pedal which turns on a large electromagnetic shield. Then you can throw nails against it, in designs or handfuls, and they will stick like porcupine's quills...
Westerners accustomed to the atmosphere of improvisation at U.S. or French demonstrations are apt to find the Japanese protest scene quite different. Clashes between helmeted students and shield-carrying riot cops seem as stylized?and puzzling?as a No play. Moreover, the rioters, often led by members of the radical Zengakuren (a student federation), are usually higher on doctrine than drugs (pot has yet to spread far in Japan). Before long, however, Japanese dissent may be taking on a Western character...
...National Institute of Dental Research is working, is the development of an antibiotic that would selectively keep down the bacteria known to be a major factor in the beginning of decay. Such a discovery may be years away. Meanwhile, water fluoridation remains the most effective, safest and cheapest shield against cavities. At 10$ psr person a year, it would cost $13 million to fluoridate all remaining public water supplies, the institute estimates. And that would save $700 million a year in dentists' fees for fillings, aside from millions of toothaches...