Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot is the sort of thing that gives science fiction a bad name. A writer (Michel Piccoli) and his mute wife (Catherine Deneuve) live in an abandoned fort on the coast of Brittany. She is pregnant; he is trying to write. Gradually, he conceives a weird fantasy about a mad engineer who plants control devices on the populace to destroy their free will. Reality begins to blur as the mad engineer invites the writer to sit down at an enormous electronic chessboard on which the townspeople are the pieces and the prize is the wife's fate. Writer...
Benka feels that the greatest moment of his track career was at the Heps this year in his capacity as team captain. "The most exciting thing wasn't the 61' throw, but seeing Harvard win the Heps," he stated. This spring, Benka will add the discus throw to his chores as captain and shotputter...
...washing machine. Slowly at first, then with increasingly regularity, the curiosity-seeking men of Eliot cam down to satisfy their voyeuristic appetites. The "expected" initial response of laughter, snickering and witty comments was an almost universal occurrence. A few people were extremely up-tight and antagonistic about the whole thing, and wanted the offensive parties immediately removed from their clean, protected midst. I reacted with a chuckle at first, smiling and commenting to my roommate about the uniqueness of the situation--which seemed to be the general topic of conversion in the room. But I was gradually moved by curiosity...
...Shame inverts this perspective Instead of enlarging detail, Bergman shrinks it. He bypasses our minds by having little that is concrete in the film--the whole thing takes on a dreamish look, and you can only stop to "think out" a dream after you've awakened from it. The few "key" lines in the film are all contained in descriptions of dreams: "At times everything is like a dream. But it's not my dream, it's somebody else's--what when that person wakes up and is ashamed...
...Beach's pin in the 123-pound class was easily the most surprising win of the day. The Quincy star credited his victory over Winthrop's Mike Conaway to one thing--luck. "When we were rolling around near the end, I just ended up on top," he said...