Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would make between a fast boat and a fast friend. In a situation like a mixed eight, where men and women are not separate, but not equal either, what standard of "athletic" can apply to the team? Can a mixed eight ever work as a consistent unit, a sort of Sprite "limon" of rowing? Or can it only be understood as a fun Halloween horse costume, which is a unit through the strength of its cloth only...
Director Chabrol's strategy is the appropriate one: simply to watch Violette with obsessive fascination, in the hope of catching a clue. Not many actresses could make this sort of scrutiny fruitful, but Huppert has the knack of suggesting endlessly watchable depths. The film ends (after Violette has been sentenced to be guillotined, then reprieved and sentenced to twelve years in prison) as did The Lacemaker, the first movie in which she starred: with camera and character star ing at each other gravely and impassively, until the screen goes dark...
...used to hide rather than reveal emotion, Natalya's passion is well camouflaged until she discovers that a similar chemical reaction has set in between her 17-year-old ward Vera (Amanda Michael Plummer) and the tutor. As Natalya schemes against Vera like a soap opera villainess, every sort of womanly hell breaks loose. In the end, Vera, Rakitin and Aleksei depart, leaving Natalya sad der but, one suspects, not a whit wiser...
...this year, we've lost to Columbia and Cornell--which is sort of like Pete Maravich losing a game of D-O-N-K-E-Y to Buddy Hackett...
...look--a straightaway, three-quarters of a mile. Then just when you think you've got it made, there's some clown sneaking up on your port side to challenge you for the inside of the turn. Weeks Bridge sports the trickiest turn in the course--you sort of want to aim for the outside edge of the center arch and turn sharply right before you enter the bridge. Watch out, if you've done it right you'll just miss losing some paint off your port blades on the inside of the arch. Gulp, swallow...