Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howe reemphasized last night that this particular provision of the NDEA program is "fantastically unreal and meaningless...
...movie's opening scenes establish the unreal tone which Director Kubrick adeptly maintains for the remaining two hours. While the titles are flashed on the screen, Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is shown behind them giving a manicure treatment to Lolita (Sue Lyon). The movie proper opens with the scene that ends the book. Gun in pocket, James Mason stalks into Clare Quilty's (Peter Sellers) mansion, and commits an amusing if horrifying murder. Sellers is superb as he tries to talk the insane Humbert out of killing him--an unshaven, hungover ping-pong player...
...concerts at the British Museum--surely not an inherently funny undertaking; and the skit ends with a singing of Auld Lang Syne which suddenly runs down like a broken record player, suggesting--what? That the whole war effort was a fraud? That the years of the war were unreal? Something definitely unpleasant, in any event...
...Geneva, city of lost and unreal causes, an air of unreality surrounds the 17-nation disarmament conference. Both the U.S. and Russia have large, competent and patient delegations on hand, ostensibly to work out an East-West disarmament agreement, including a nuclear test ban. There is very little hope that such an agreement will be reached; sometimes the main idea seems to be to put the blame for failure on the other side. The U.S. insists on international inspection for any test ban agreement, while the Russians charge such inspection is just another form of espionage. Secretary of State Dean...
Only one person loves the war lover, an orphaned Korean boy named Charlie (Tommy Matsuda). A bruising struggle to mold Charlie's developing personality begins between Endore and another private, Loomis (Robert Redford). Loomis is a rookie in the platoon, a man for whom war is a strange, unreal interlude to be borne with fortitude, but no elation...