Word: sun
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Chinatown, Roman Polanski's hardboiled masterpiece about L.A. in the 1940s, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Harvard Film Archive; Sun...
...then the sun shown on Harvard--not literally, of course--but the Crimson did get a huge break on an illegal stick penalty against Hofstra that gave Harvard a full three minutes of unreleasable man-up time...
...omit mention of the various other experimental devices or odd techniques. These range from the set pregnant with meaning (the plain soil of a garden; the sexually suggestive rope of a swing) to the rather obtrusive lighting (a programmed sequence of flashes as Dora polishes a plate). The sun seems to rise and set in the same place, or never to set; a moon figures prominently as well. Singing crops up now and again unexpectedly. Sound effects--a car starting, space-aged boings--provide a sort of EKG for the consciousness of the characters...
Pico Iyer in his praise of changing seasons displayed a deep fascination for nature and an understanding so lacking in modern life [ESSAY, April 1]. Oh, how has modern man lost the imagination to capture the awesome rhythm of the seasons, of night and day, light and darkness, sun and moon? It's a poor existence indeed if we cannot find the time to stand and stare at all the loveliness and mystery, small and great, that surrounds us--like the coming of spring. GRAY PHOMBEAH London...