Word: stewardesses
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Although her dark blue Eastern Airlines uniform skirt reached down to the top of her knee, and she was loaded with make-up, the stewardess on the way down to New York was exceptionally good for conversation. She argued with the middle-aged male adult in front of me about the virtues of marijuana and sighed knowingly when he said he was a buyer for a large hardware store chain for a living. She had seen The Graduate, and liked it yes, but had not mistaken Dustin Hoffman's naturally pinched voice with a well-developed acting technique...
...York Times had told its story, the one "That's fit to print," and I was going down to Columbia to see it in person, so I pondered over the stewardess's remark as I left the plane. At which point, the middle age adult buyer turned and pointed his finger at me. "Hey buddy, when you take over buddy, I'm over on something and something street, and I've got a 30-30 rifle. Be sure and come over...
...students at Columbia first began demonstrating, a week and a half ago, because a girl as cool as the stewardess had not bothered to read the Times for quite a while. She got stoned, but she probably didn't vote. The Columbia students wanted to convert the cultural alienation, so pervasive in young America, into political alienation, which is only beginning...
...students at Columbia continued demonstrating, and would not stop until they were granted total amnesty, because even if the cool stewardess did read the New York Times, she probably still wouldn't know what was happening. If they had given up demonstrating, they would be publicly admitting their own guilt and they would have lost their chance to force the Times to report the story from a different view-point. They would do so only if the students succeeded in forcing the administration to meet their demands and in winning the support of the respectable Columbia faculty...
...triumph, both in terms of film technique and directorial approach, is in the audience's almost immediate acceptance of special effects as reality: after we have seen a stewardess walk up a wall and across the ceiling early in the film, we no longer question similar amazements and accept Kubrick's new world without question. The credibility of the special effects established, we can suspend disbelief, to use a justifiable cliche, and revel in the beauty and imagination of Kubrick/Clarke's space. And turn to the challenging substance of the excellent screenplay...