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...prompted them to award the movie the Jury Prize. To foreign eyes, it may seem an accurate presentation of the American venacular which fascinates many French. It is particularly American insofar as it is a bogus excursion into social truth. Horovitz, who has given the director only the tiniest characterizations to build the movie on. As long as large film companies produce and sell movies such as this masquerading as honesty or confrontation, many opinions will remain romanticized, muddled, and as annoyingly cute as this film...
Although Scott prepared for Patton by reading and watching newsreels, he has no set theories or prejudices about acting. "Actors," he explains, "are the original atom smashers." In other words, people who break down a character or a human emotion into its tiniest components and then reassemble it. "It's schizophrenic," he says. "The first trap is getting too much of yourself into the part. The second is getting too far removed, too technical. The ideal is a combination of both those elements with something else, the ability to get away from yourself, criticize, be brutal with yourself...
...Making Tracks. There were also some smaller surprises. Examining the lunar material with scanning electron microscopes, scientists observed that even the tiniest granules were cratered by micrometeorite bombardment. They also saw miniaturized versions of the larger glassy spheres spotted and collected by the Apollo astronauts; they were apparently formed by splashes of hot debris from meteorite impacts. Several scientists showed electron micrographs of pyroxenes (a mineral also found on earth) that had crystallized in a remarkable candy-stripe pattern. The investigators also saw tiny tracks produced in the rocks by the bombardment of cosmic ray and solar particles. Made millions...
...Besterman estimates he wrote, how many are read-how many are readable-today? Certainly not his dated verse tragedies about Frenchified classical heroes. Nor his special-pleading history. Nor his philosophical tracts like Traité de Métaphysique which placed him, in Besterman's phrase, only "the tiniest possible step away from atheism...
While we do not minimize the gravity of these and other problems, we are sure we are expressing the sentiments of all except the tiniest minority of the University community in saying that violent means for their solution are inadmissible. Such measures cannot be tolerated anywhere in society and least of all in an institution dedicated to reason and freedom. The seizure of University Hall was the work not simply of a small group dedicated to the overthrow of society but of a dissident faction of that group. There is no way to insure that such tactics will...