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...paragraph for mistakes, squeezed into the loops. Hunter's camera is still a touch self-conscious. Too many zoom shots from point of view. Some angles which scream Staged, viz. shooting a collapse from behind a sofa so that suddenly the subject drops from sight. Some over-cute editorializing: Emilie walking beneath a marquee which proclaims "Thoroughly Modern Millie"; Elizabeth walking beneath a traffic sign which reads Playground. Hardly worth getting upset about...
...fifteen unusual minutes, just remember violence symbolizes sex, the dead mules on the piano symbolize sex, and ants symbolize masturbation.) Exploited sometimes as Bunuel's creation or more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most youthful characteristics in both. Dali's frantic desire to shock the bourgeoisie (viz. the eyeslicing) works with Bunuel's iconoclasm (the Christ-parody). In 1929, Bunuel derided the "imbeciles" who looked for beauty in this "despairing, passionate call to murder"; but from an aesthetic as well as a historical perspective, it's still worth seeing...
Kerr has informed the students by letter that the Ad Board has become "increasingly uneasy with a position which I persuaded them to take, viz., to accept my judgment that certain men had participated in the obstruction of Mr. Leavitt...
...report grades to the registrar, came before the Columbia faculty which tabled it. As I understand it, given the current international situation, the automatic giving of A's to students, hence-forth called the A-plan, is designed to eliminate various extraneous influences upon the educational process, viz. students unduly concentrating upon getting good grades, and teachers bearing the responsibility of deciding upon grades which may seriously affect a student's future...
...Princeton TV viewers who gather together nearly every evening in our dorms are known as the "tube team." Only those "weenie-grinds" (students who spend too much time in the "libe" and not enough watching the tube), lacking the basic cepts, call us the "viz squad...