Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machine-gun and artillery fire in the near distance, a Negro military leader (Al Freeman Jr.) revisits his former white wife, who is now married to a white history professor. Ostensibly, he has come to see his two daughters, possibly to kill them, but mostly to gloat and watch the whites cringe before his oft-waved pistol. At one point, the professor asks if there will be more love or beauty or knowledge in the world after a Negro victory. "That was not ever the point," the Negro retorts. "The point is that you had your chance, darling; now these...
...theater. Guilty of some miserable productions, the repertory theater had been ultimately damned by its successes; the company that had been created to help revitalize the New York theater has succeeded only in imitating what is already there. News pictures of Miller and Kazan sweating out the "death watch" for daily reviews after an open ing illustrated how far they never got from Broadway...
...Alone in the sea at night, I am always afraid," one veteran diver confesses. The audience shares his fear and fascination, and occasionally even his lethargy becomes swimmingly real. It is hypnotic and hilarious to watch a school of scallops, threatened by a starfish, go snapping across the ocean bottom like a herd of stampeding dentures. The film has its faults: it grows repetitious and tries to provide variety with music full of scubadoo cuteness. Thus, by the time the saucer plunges down for a climactic survey of the queer fish and mating crabs found...
...those who are unfamiliar with this 1930 classic, that M tells the story of a child-killer eventually hunted down by the under-world itself. The famous final scene, in which Lorre confesses his crimes, is a true melodrama of the soul. And the initiates to the film should watch out for the use of asynchronous sound or counterpoint, the brilliant use of incidental music as an active dramatic element, and the melodramatic use of space, especially in long shots from above...
...game to watch Wednesday will be played at 9 p.m., when B.U., the best in the East, meets Michigan, the best in the West. This could easily be a preview of the March NCAA tournament, which decides the national champion...