Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Up in Vermont, three madcap characters are put through their paces by Director Adolfas Mekas, an East Village cinemaniac who pokes fiendish fun at every moviemaker from D. W. Griffith to Antonioni...
...Where the hell are we?" somebody wants to know as the film begins. We are lost in the woods of Vermont, that's where, and so are those two schloonks on the screen. One is called Jack (Peter H. Beard) and the other Leo (Marty Greenbaum), and they are both in love with Vera. But Vera has just married Gideon and the boys are terribly upset. How could she! How could she be so cruel to two passionate admirers who have seen her at least once a year for the last seven years...
...console themselves, the rejected suitors organize the first surrealistic camping trip in world history; and before the trip is finished, sober old Vermont turns into a landscape by Salvador Dali. First off, the boys light up a 12-ft. stack of logs-to boil a can of soup. Then they go jeeping across an open field in pursuit of a terrified farmer-whom they try to lasso. And all the while they recollect in flashback the crazy things they did while they were courting-like, say, the time Leo peeled a banana, slipped it in the breast pocket of Jack...
...distinguish right from wrong, but on the larger ground that a criminal should not be held cul pable if "his unlawful act is the product of a mental disease or defect." The so-called Durham Rule, or something like it, has since entered the law of several states (Maine, Vermont and Illinois). By necessity, such progress takes place at a deliberate pace, as the law weighs the possibility that any change in the criminal insanity codes may open inviting new escape hatches for the dedicated law breaker...
...frankly dramatic of the new buildings at Yale. In his new library, Bunshaft has made books the monument. First editions are arrayed in a glass tower for all to see-and to use. To keep out damaging direct rays of the sun, Bunshaft has provided outer walls of translucent Vermont marble that luminously filters the outside light...