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...slipped them on, and it was like Superman in the stockroom at the Daily Planet, a large metropolitan newspaper. I walked around the place with this really cocky stride and checked them out in the mirror. I was too much. I wondered how I put up with those ??? ??? booties for so long...
...last two reels, Zabriskie Point hits its stride. The best scenes in the film up to then have prepared for the increasing abstraction and breaking-up that dominate the ending. Superficially connected by dramatic relationships, the shots are actually as distinct from each other as the five-minute montage of locations that ends Eclipse. In the airport footage, each group (police, newsmen, airport workers) is given its own turf and its own shot-the camerawork never connects them, and the soundtrack stresses their diverse functions and attitudes. Cross-cutting between Daria's final drive to Phoenix and Mark's return...
...ensure justice for its blacks and tranquillity among its races. The momentum created over 16 years by stern courts and forceful federal officials to eliminate segregated Southern school systems has been slowed. The first hesitant steps toward racial balance of Northern schools have been thrown off stride. The nation, at least temporarily, seems to be retreating on the sensitive and highly symbolic issue of school integration...
...bitter fervor and wild-goat odor of the corpus Lundquist, have quickened his sense of human possibilities. He comes to believe that-contrary to the Declaration of Independence-happiness is not a goal to be pursued but something that overtakes a man only when he hits his full stride...
Harvard coach John Lee took the defeat in stride. "We've been nipped all year, so I guess it's fitting that the season end this...