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...state where mayors and legislators have been elected from the jailhouse, and where the Harvard commencement procession was once led by the Sheriff of Middlesex County while he was under indictment. Consequently, it is silly to expect Thompson and the others to be gripped with a moral fervor and suspend themselves--and even if they do, there is no particular reason to hope for much improvement...
Bourguignon has frustrated our predisposition to a goodies against baddies orientation because, through interdependent use of sound, photography, and skillful editing, he offers a perpetual shifting of perspective. Not only at the end should we suspend any predilection toward valuative judgement. Throughout the film we must experience the world in terms other than our own. In one scene (when we follow Pierre's desperate race to the convent) it bounces madly by us in the rear-view mirror of a truck. In a restaurant party, a babbling couple are grotesquely distorted through the stem of Pierre's champagne glass...
...backward and we see their reflections in the water. They move away, yet their backs come towards us. The camera inverts, the lake becomes the land. But to dissect the scene in this manner as we watch is to shatter the stuble imagery that Bourguignon invokes. If instead, we suspend our critical faculties--sit back and let ourselves be fooled again and again--we may enter into manifold perceptions of the world...
...last, Chiari took to the radio pleading for order and telling Panamanians not to listen "to demagogic incitement by certain agitators." He contacted General O'Meara, asking him to suspend the U.S. anti-sniper fire, promising that Panamanian troops would deal with the snipers. Three U.S. G.I.s had already been killed, 85 wounded; the Panamanians claimed about 300 casualties, including 20 dead-and blamed the U.S. for them...
Girls who repeatedly sign out overnight to boy's apartments may be questioned about their conduct and, if necessary, brought before the college Judicial Board, several Radcliffe head residents said last night. The Judicial Board has the power to suspend or expel students...