Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piety for cinders is a half-way thing...
...CinemaScope frame. While he walks around and pulls the camera after him, she is carried into the ring and set down in long shot--isolated in the frame and imprisoned by the camera sweeping around her. Ophuls' cutting in closer to her body, rather than tracking in (a surprising thing to do in CinemaScope, which is better adapted to long takes than to quick cutting), emphasizes her staticity, her closeness to death. But the camera motions, which express the glamor vital to the circus, generate the energy and the grace Lola needs to begin re-enacting her life...
...magnet, of course, was Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Everything before them--Steve Marcus, who bombed with "Wild Thing"; Jethro Tull, with Ian Anderson strutting, kicking, and striking a Panlike pose with his flute; and the frenetic sound of Ten Years Yater--was prologue. And from the moment they walked on, you said to yourself that everything that came after would be anticlimax. (In fact, Jeff Beck was worse; a real down...
While scientists have often speculated about this universal speed, they have never been able to record or measure it. For one thing, they lacked a suitable frame of reference in which they could clock the earth's speed through the universe as a whole. Now, a young Stanford University astronomer has made such a computation by using a phenomenon so distant in origin that it can be considered at the very outer limits of the cosmos. He calculates that along with the rest of the Milky Way galaxy, the earth is hurtling through space at 360,000 m.p.h...
...love with revolution-"perpetual change, perpetual spontaneity"-for its own sake, as if it were a marvelous formula for releasing all the virtues, including love. On the other hand, Spender complains, given half a chance student-reb els go all brisk, like "frustrated bureaucrats." (As he observes: "The first thing they set up is a committee...