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...time of his death, he was of average height for the period (5 ft. 5 in.), had delicate, pleasing features that seemed to approach the Hellenistic ideal, probably wore a beard, and apparently had never performed any really arduous labor-indicating his possible upper-class origins. Except for the injuries inflicted during his crucifixion, he seemed to have been in exceptionally fine health. His only deformities were a slight cleft palate and a barely perceptible asymmetry of the skull, possibly a sign of a difficult birth...
...insist that Lean's purpose was to blow smokescreens into the eyes of the masses by misrepresenting revolution. Bolt and Lean wrote it that way because they see it that way. It does seem odd to let a film about a popular Irish revolution be made by two rich upper-class English show-business entrepreneurs. But as long as people like them are the ones making movies, it's their view of things that movies will reflect, to the almost complete exclusion of other consciousnesses and realities...
...from it by this sense or that feeling. Even when the Cuban legal system intervenes in his life, and puts him on trial for rape. Alea presents the whole situation through his eyes-along with his voiceover judgments of the poor people accusing him, judgments from a highly bigoted upper-class perspective. The hero's generalizations about national character, his sense of the country, the Cuban soul, his generally useless impressions of social events, all run through the film and stand as a description of Cuba which the film nowhere objectively opposes. His oppressive sense of the alien city with...
...your own home movies. But though everyone strained not to miss a single bit of background action, and though the hockey boys applauded themselves extravagantly, precious little of Harvard showed up in the final film. Functionally, Harvard was there simply to provide an excuse for connecting up terribly upper-class Ryan O'Neal with lower middle-class Ali McGraw, whom Hollywood seems to have slated to pick up all the ethnic roles than Anthony Quinn can no longer play. The screenplay could have been set on a cross-town bus during the recent New York taxi strike and it wouldn...
Genevieve Austin, Radcliffe dean of residence, said that it will not be possible to increase the number of Radcliffe women living in the Houses to more than 100, because of the need to maintain a "favorable balance" of upper-class women living in the Quad. "Spreading 400 women thinly among nine Houses averages to 44 women per House-not a very healthy balance," Austin said...