Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's players and fans celebrate in New Haven, and in autos, trains and buses going back to Boston. On the train, one group of former football players sings songs and drinks continuously during the entire three hour ride. The mood on Yale's campus is a bit more somber. Harvard students celebrating in Yale's dining halls are conscious of their laughter. The line at Morey's is not what it might have been, though several dozen people wait outside, huddling against their dates or spouses for warmth, occasionally calling to demonstrative Harvard fans, telling them to go back...
...high spirits. Fans bought Red Sox pennants and waved them lazily in the blue-skied sunshine. Window washers, perched high on an old office building nearby, displayed a "Sox Still #1" sign. From the mezzanine came piped-in music, adding a festive air to what might have been a somber occasion...
Then Visconti assumes a more somber tone. Konrad turns out to be a person of radical political persuasion. Helmut Berger is a conspicuously unreliable man to get close to in a locker room, much less in a demonstration; he is nevertheless required to convince us that he "threw himself into the student movement." This background, which is about as likely as Jean Cocteau in his youth going three rounds in the Golden Gloves eliminations, rather diminishes the credibility of Visconti's entire enterprise...
...pace of this Menagerie, directed by Robert Lisack, is slow at first, its tone somber almost to the point of dreariness. What sustains the show, until the superb climactic scene, is the generally high caliber of the acting. Bonnie DeLorme as Amanda is a classically stifling mother. Both harridan and guardian, she pines over her lost youth as a southern belle and happily nurses the memory of the day she entertained 17 gentleman callers. DeLorme's gestures are a bit awkward at times, but her lips, pouting or trembling, and her eyes, gazing into the past or seeing a future...
...years ago, Richard Avedon has been making shock waves with his camera. He was a highly innovative fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, snapping his models in the midst of wild-eyed elephants or striding in the rain. But it was his still and startlingly somber portraiture of celebrities and friends that established him, along with Andre Kertesz, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith and Ansel Adams, as one of the most important photographers in the world...