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...through an entire painting in this way. Boudin's influence on his incomparably more gifted disciple was strong, and it can be seen as late as 1870 in the pearly sky, sand and sea of Camille Monet and Her Cousin on the Beach at Trouville. But the broad slap of Monet's brush and the vigorous striping of the girls' dresses have already gone beyond what Boudin had to teach...
...film knows what to make of itself: Its last scrap of dialogue describes a napalmed rose bush burning-a vision too beautiful to be saddening and a devastating slap at an audience new exhilarated by Bergman's art. Bergman wanted to go still further and remove the audience from its passive acceptance of screen images. In last spring's The Passion of Anna, the audience is forced to appreciate and analyze the elements of dramatic characterization: each of the participating actors freely explains his own conceptions of his work at breaks in the narrative. The story itself is constructed...
...minute Howard Cosell-esque masterpiece about the basketball career of Bill Bradley.) There are some wonderful classroom scenes and a great interview with a freshman playing catch in the Yard, his pithy comments about the variety of options open to a Harvard student metered by the regular slap of the ball in his glove. Pinball is there, and so is Archie Cox. But other omnipresent motifs of Harvard life are missing, most notably drugs and sex (unless you can get titillated by a passing reference to how much men enjoy living in Currier House...
...world that is not to her liking. Wanton she may be, but she gets no joy out of it; her eye is out for the main chance, for social advancement rather than sexual gratification. Her quarrel with the overseer of the cigarette factory ends in no mere slap; she tears the poor creature's bodice and carves a bloody cross on her back. Her seduction of Don José is more challenge than submission, and when he ultimately kills her for her faithlessness, she dies in a rage...
...obscenity conviction brought only a comparative wrist slap to Screw's cofounders, Publisher Jim Buckley, 26, and Executive Editor Al Goldstein, 35. Each could have received a $6,000 fine and six years in prison, as demanded by the district attorney. But the judges levied only fines of $1,500 apiece. Both men promptly paid up, announced appeals and went back to publishing. But two more obscenity trials for Screw lie ahead, both based on specific seizures of relatively recent issues...