Word: tenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of 40 Yale law students and a huge plastic tent came to the Harvard Law School yesterday to display a gentle way of life...
...plastic tent was set up in Harkness Common and was open to everyone who wanted to go in. Inside was a record player, a strobe light, and a small inner compartment which a few people could enter for intimate conversation...
...yesterday, two hundred people crowded into the tent for an hour of group communion. Everyone breathed, moved, and spoke together in attempts to overcome their egos and to have an honest experience. The idea, said the leaders, was "not to disrupt but go with the flow...
...characters seem to wander through the scenes to allow Wexler to use them nearly as the agents that tie together everything that he really wants to say. And he gets all the big news in there like a true news photographer creep. Kennedy's assassination, King's assassination, Tent City, the Black revolutionaries, the Appalachian ghetto, and finally the police riots in Chicago at the convention. Wexler wants his message to be not just a theortical fiction, but a fiction for a specific reality that we all know about and recognize. And his own documentary footage of Chicago Police brutality...
...than a total experience: we can really feel the editing, the presence of the director, and the techniques he's using. It's full of dialogue hanging over from a just finished scene or anticipating one to come, and overly arty shots of the boots in the mud of Tent City-all used without much purpose. And, like the TV news, we feel we're seeing snipets of possibly limitless footage about what the cameraman's whole life is like...