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Friday, April 7: French Department Film--The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, 377 Science Center...
Eizenstat, 35, was one of Carter's original Georgia Mafia, but his rise has nonetheless been remarkable. The son of an Atlanta shoe wholesaler, he was a star basketball player in high school and later studied at the University of North Carolina and Harvard Law School ('67). He wrote speeches on domestic affairs for Lyndon Johnson, then became an adviser to Hubert Humphrey during the 1968 presidential race. At that time he believed in the Great Society approach to social problems: spend more money on them...
Arriving at the Temple for the Sunday service and dinner, you first kneel to remove your shoes in the vestibule. The shoe removal is required of everyone who wishes to enter a Hare Krishna Temple. The height of the devotee who greets you is magnified as he stands before oak-paneled walls. A vertically lined robe drapes his slim frame. He looks down and grins...
...Olvidados. Bunuel made this film in exile in Mexico in 1950, on a shoe-string budget after more than ten years of enforced retirement from making movies. Dealing with street gangs in Mexico City, Bunuel displays here the same sardonic sensibility (combining psychoanalytic and sociological perspectives) which distinguishes the best of his later films, especially "Belle de Jour" and "Viridiana." This film, though technically more primitive, has the most raw emotional power, and contains perhaps the most effective dream sequence in any film I've seen...
...idea sketched on the back of a paper bag," says Jack McMahon, head of the development group for Parker Bros., the big Massachusetts game manufacturer responsible for Monopoly, that company's alltime bestseller. A couple of years ago an extraordinary little group managed to get a shoe in Parker Bros.' door: a Cambridge astronomer named Robert Doyle, his wife Holly, an astrophysicist who taught at Harvard, and her brother Wendl Thomis, a New York computer software expert. They had given themselves a name, Microcosmos, like a rock group, and what was more interesting, they had an idea...