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THIS FORMAL analysis implies essential truths about the evolving situation of the protagonists. Lang is commonly called an Expressionist director who loves to trap characters in fate-filled plots. This view ignores Lang's persistent them of evidence of perception of the man who learns about the situation in which he is caught...

Author: By Mike Prokosoll, | Title: The Moviegoer Fury tonight at 9:30. 2 Divinity Avenue | 2/25/1970 | See Source »

George W. Goethals, lecturer on Social Relations, wanted residence and course requirements reduced to allow accelerated graduation on the basis of examinations alone. "Four-year college is essentially a kind of trap," Goethals said. Goethals also had some suggestions on General Education. (See sidebar...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Curriculum Reform Study Gets Enthusiastic Support | 2/14/1970 | See Source »

...think that's the nature of the fake morality that we live by. We invent right and wrong, so that we seem to be making very good choices all the time-and that's a trap! Long before that, we've committed the disaster. And all these choices that we seem to be making are not choices...

Author: By Mike Prokosen, | Title: The Moviegoer Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | 2/12/1970 | See Source »

...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. It's in that third area right there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Blood and Guts | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

Near the shore hunters might trap a wounded whale...

Author: By Katha Pollitt, | Title: Moving a House | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

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