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...CALL Agnes Varda's latest film, One Sings, The Other Doesn't, feminist art is to insult both feminism and art. Such claims will undoubtedly be made, however, for Varda sets her story of the long-term friendship of two women against the back-drop of the feminist movement of the '60s, presumably illustrating Simone deBeauvoir's famous line, "women are made, not born." But Varda's feminism concerns itself only with those things that have to do specifically with the female body. For her, feminism equals the Pill and easily-had abortions. Varda fails to realize that women...
...presentation of a rare film from his Cinematheque collection, 7:30. May 12: Jean Eustache, Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes with Jean-Pierre Leaud, 7:30, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance Nue, 9:30. May 13: Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 7:30, Agnes Varda, Le Bonheur, 9:30. May 14: Eric Rohmer, La Collectionneuse, 7:30, My Night at Maud's, 9:30. May 15: Phillipe De Broca, Cartouche, with Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 7:30, Love Game, 9:30. May 16: Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, 7:30, Contempt...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH. "One Week" by Buster Keaton, "Bondu Saved from Drowning" by Jean Renoir, March 1, 7:30, $1, Far From Vietnam, edited by Chris Marker from footage given to him by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Renais, Agnes Varda, Joris Iven, and other, March 4, 7:30, free-sponsored by Institute of Politics. "The Boat" by Buster Keaton (1921), "Toni," by Jean Renoir (1935), March...
...Hurricane Agnes are products of the same criminal mind, designed to foster the illusion of woman as Eve, forever volatile and treacherous. The authors therefore suggest the elimination of sexist terms. "Genkind," they think, would provide a great encompassing umbrella under which all humanity could huddle, regardless. Varda One, a radical philologist, asks for the obliteration of such repugnant pronouns as he and she, his and hers. In place she offers ve, vis and ver. "We don't go around addressing persons by their race, height or eye color," says One. "Why should we identify them by sex?" Unfortunately...
...considered to be blatantly sexist. Henry James' "We must grant the artist his subject, his idea ..." sounds as if the artist were always a man. Thus a search is under way for a set of sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction, and another added her and him together and got herm, which ve pointed...