Word: unevennesses
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WILFRED LEACH'S In 3 Zones , now in its world premiere at the Charles Playhouse, is a series of fairy-tale plot fragments saturated in Faust-derived moralizing. The combination is heavy, uneven and often downright tedious, but director Louis Criss breathes some life into the subject matter through experiments, somewhat erratic, in fusion of stage and film action. Though all focus disappears in Zones 1 and 3, largely due to an undisciplined spate of plot elaborations, Criss and his acting troupe salvage Zone 2, "The Occupied Zone," thus granting their audience a few moments of genuine excitement...
Though less sensational than the two other freak comics, HEE HEE's artwork is uneven and lacks even a minimal thematic continuity. From titles like "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom of the Toilet Bowl" and "The Man Who Bites," the comic sounded like an instant winner, but both stories are incomprehensible jumbles of Martian deserts and bathrooms. Others include a giant mouse that chases both Americans and the Viet Cong out of Vietnam and a scientist who tries to change the direction of Western culture by involving everyone in a game he calls "Life." The best story...
This means that two changes will have to occur before the merger is complete: an increase in the number of women which Radcliffe now admits, coupled with a cutback in male enrollment to level off the uneven ratio...
...Underlying this dilemma is another problem that threatens the future of coed living. Physical conditions in the Houses are far more attractive than they are in the Radcliffe Quad, and that, perhaps even more than the uneven ratio, has led many male undergraduates to oppose an extensive or long-term coed plan. The coed switch that will begin this Fall had to be curtailed by almost a third because of large-scale unwillingness to move to the Cliffe...
...prefer to release their films without any festival foreplay. But no such restrictions forced the selection of solemn bores and hedged experiments that mark the 1970 festival. Presented with inconsistent aesthetic standards, promoted with hyperthyroid jargon ("vertiginous spatial ambiguity . . . total meta-theatricality"), the New York Film Festival continues an uneven tradition now running into its eighth year. Some representative features...