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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being experienced daily by more than 4000 people in the T.M. program. These abilities appear to grow naturally out of an increased harmony with the basic laws of nature. In the past only a handful of people around the world were known to exhibit abilities of this sort...
...Last Saturday we were sort of hammering away," Benton said yesterday, "and in this race we were a lot smoother...
...Violet could have childhood--the kid forced to grow up too core of vulnerability. (Jodie Foster's teenage comes to mind.) Instead, Violet's is a face not to lurk in corners but to skip through halls. Her coping mechanism, if it can be called that, is a sort of bitchiness. But it is a bitchiness that is not so much protective as just plain infantile--selfish and self-indulgent...
...photography served to evoke his themes. In Lacombe, Lucien, the pale yellows and faded textures reflected the sultry French provincial world where even fascism unfolds at a meandering pace. And in a sleeper called The Thief of Paris, the visual opulence and use of decorative objects created just the sort of decadent bourgeois dreamworld that Malle's meant to attack. But in this film the visual effects, like baby, are just pretty. All Malle's often exquisite camerawork is good for are fleeting moments of aesthetic satisfaction...
...societal perversions. It would have been hoped that he could do with our cultural inhibitions about child sexuality what he did with the incest taboo in Murmur of the Heart. Or that with his genius for cinematic austerity he could have conveyed the every-dayness of this sort of corruption, as he did with the drift toward fascism in Lacombe, Lucien. In that film he moved us through understatement. In this film, he doesn't seem to have anything clear enough to understate. A movie like Lacombe, Lucien gave physical and visual life to the idea of the banality...