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...immense economic shifts in modern Italy (now ranked seventh among the world's industrial nations) have produced staggering effects on the look of the country. Italians put their oil refineries on the coast, usually siting them with a grotesque disregard for the environment in now vanishing beauty spots like Portovenere. Some 4,000 miles of the country's shore line is permanently fouled by oil slicks and industrial wastes from 140,000 coastal factories. Inland, the dumping of industrial wastes has become so chronic that Milanese rice, once the staple of every decent risotto, grows poorly...
...bothered him for a while: "It was a rude shock to me how it felt to be home alone at night . . . I began to wonder how Barbara had felt when I was out to so many meetings at night." On several of the evenings Barbara is home, Maurice must vanish-she runs a consciousness-raising session there, and men are forbidden. "Sometimes," he says, "it makes me feel like a stranger in my own house." Barbara has a few reservations of her own. "If I had it to do all over again," she says, "I would have a partnership contract...
...that is what the translator says. One of the visitors speaks up. "If we had asked that question in America, she would have said she wanted to grow up and get married." The answer is translated and it has an odd effect. Instantly the somber expressions of the girls vanish; they laugh among themselves...
...vision transforms each girl into a bevy, each actor into a troupe, each singer into a chorus. The dancers form phalanxes and kicklines and giant grids; they pirouette into place onto giant record discs in the shape of rosettes; they turn their heads and make their paper thin headdresses vanish. And then there's the tunnel-of-legs sequence, with a long camera track at floor level passing under the opened legs of the chorus line. The film degenerates into travesty, extending the traditional fascination with bodies as clockwork. You can see just how repulsive it really is--especially when...
...politics of Harvard's undergraduate student body--and so great the self-willed forgetfulness of the larger institution--that the metaphor of the last veteran, outlandish as it seems, is not totally inapt. When we leave, the bonds and rifts which the strike set up between us will vanish, and the last few remnants of a collective mind which at odd moments during that battle seemed fused into one inchoate but unanimous rage will be atomized. For most, the strike will become something they did at college. It will be a historical phenomenon...