Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suddenly conventional dimensions vanish. An avalanche of eerie, kinetic effects attacks the eye and bends the mind. Kubrick turns the screen into a planetarium gone mad and provides the viewer with the closest equivalent to psychedelic experience this side of hallucinogens. At the end, beyond time and space, Dullea apparently learns the secret of the universe-only to find that, as Churchill said about Russia, it is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...
...Like Space Odyssey itself, the ambiguous ending is at once appropriate and wrong. It guarantees that the film will arouse controversy, but it leaves doubt that the film makers themselves knew precisely what they were flying at. Still, no film to date has come remotely near Odyssey's depiction of the limitless beauty and terror of outer space. In this 2-hr. 40-min. movie, only 47 minutes are taken up with dialogue. The rest of the time is occupied with demanding, brilliant material for the eye and brain. Thus, though it may fail as drama, the movie succeeds...
...that Kubrick has taken off on his space kick, his fans are convinced that a sci-fi renaissance is on its way. As the spy film sinks slowly in the West, and the western sinks rapidly into TV, studios are occupied with some dozen ambitious fantasy features, ranging from Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with Rod Steiger, to the high-camp French comic strip Barbarella, with Jane Fonda. The next trend for Kubrick? All he will give away is that it will be "a mind boggler...
...Union also sought to present a fresh image. It consciously disassociated itself from the hardened radical types at SDS. The Union was an "autonomous affiliate" of SDS, but only to get University office space and a Harvard telephone extension...
William Liller, Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy, showed up on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show to discuss pulsars, radio signals from outer space that may indicate the existence of other-wordly intelligent life...