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...crew in deep snow there are no seconds takes" for a director to cover himself with. "Up in the mountain, in the scenes with new snow, you couldn't have the actor's tracks in the shot. You'd have to take a snowmobile, move the actor into thicket by some back way, and call him on a two-way radio to come out." He recalls other difficulties: the scene of Redford riding through the Crow burial ground was shot in a driving snowstorm with barely enough light for the cameras; for a shot of Redford chipping a stone tool...
...thicket of verbiage protects, and supports, the most banal propositions. Recently, an artist named Jannis Kounellis showed (among other things) a live macaw, sitting on a perch that projected from a steel plate. "The parrot piece," Kounellis explained, "is a more direct demonstration of the dialectic between the structure and the rest, in other words, the nature of the parrot, do you see? The structure represents a common mentality, and then the sensuous part, the parrot, is a criticism of the structure, right?" Stripped of its jargon, this is a not very surprising revelation that parrots are not perches...
...from the entire debate. Gulf happens to be allied with a colonial dictatorship in its quest for profits. Other corporations are allied with comparable institutions, churning out medical supplies and napalm with the equanimity of good free marketeers. Hideous commodities and corporations converge with benign ones in a dense thicket...
...University, whose "primary strength and influence lie in its capacity for teaching and research," as Farber says. What can we do about Angola? Farber poses the question with a fatalism that was shared by many students and faculty last spring: how can the University presume to enter the corporate thicket and attempt to prune away Gulf in Angola from the rest, or at least pull the Gulf in Angola briars out of its own skin. Wouldn't that be just a "symbolic" action, concludes Farber; one having little effect in the real world? Even if Harvard were somehow to succeed...
...girl whose refusal to consummate her role as the female aristocrat opposite to Cole's Lawrencian peasant not only depresses Cole but sends him into a rage." The two of them plod through the cliched relationship in a series of mildly abrasive encounters--on the street, in a thicket during a church social, and over the phone...