Word: spoor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life at the Top continues to follow the spoor of Joe Lampton, the scheming, snarling anti-hero of British Novelist John Braine's Room at the Top. In this movie sequel, based on the sequel to the bestseller, nearly everything has changed except Laurence Harvey's skintight performance...
...dense spoor-fine dust...
...spoor of Esoterica hangs over the afternoon courses. Math. 224, for example, dallies over "Topics in the Theory of Compact Riemann Surfaces"; while Portuguese 200 elucidates Portuguese linguistics, and includes a survey of Portuguese literature up to 1500. At hours to be arranged Akkadian 230 will dwell on elementary Akkadian. Indian Studies 122a will exhume elementary classical Tibetan...
...Spoor & Spurn. What is most striking about Buchan's heroes, for modern readers at least, is their now archaic innocence and idealism of word and deed. Modeled on Buchan's Oxford friends and fellow World War I officers, they were created in a time when aristocratic and gentlemanly virtues were still fashionable and younger sons sought fame at the four corners of the world. For them, the trail of anything, even an idea, is always a "spoor." Girls, when they appear, and they appear seldom, are customarily wholesome and boyishly slim. Men are lean...
...photographed film footage they get. When the beasts are off camera, the film is a beastly drag. Elsa Martinelli wants to be roped and wedding-banded by Wayne, but big John shies away from any species that a zoo will not buy. The other three white hunters follow the spoor of a comely teen-ager (Michele Girardon). Director Howard Hawks kids these silly romances, but two hours and 40 minutes among the wildebeests is apt to send moviegoers stampeding down the aisles for a deep, bracing breath of carbon monoxide...