Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that regard it is important now to watch Peru. Recent U.S. administrations have not hesitated to support military dictatorships in many parts of the world. The trouble with Peru is that its military dictatorship leans toward the left. It has nationalized several U.S. businesses, and has initiated reform programs to make Peru's economic life more independent. Peru is now under heavy pressure, perhaps even in danger of military attack. It shares borders with Chile. Bolivia and Brazil, all ultra-rightist regimes and all client states of the U.S. Also it has just been announced from Washington that the Administration...
...watch from my window, where I always shall...
...Timothy Bottoms and Martin Balsam. The idea here was some sort of cultural relativism--19th century sailors shipwrecked in the Arctic, taken in by an Eskimo community. First scene the natives kill their dinner, ripping off seal flesh and tearing it with their teeth, practically drooling blood. We watch it in graphic detail. Later we learn that despite their foreign ways they are gentle people--just different--and that they have free love inside the igloos, also moderately graphic. The dinner is supposed to disgust you; the sex is supposed to titillate you: you move from shock to shock...
...cinematic effect. Later Tommy is left to devices of the Acid Queen (Tina Turner is a marvelous caricature, snake-tongued and screeching--the best thing in the show), and a 'psychedelic' scene full of neons and visual tricks that experimental filmmakers have been using for years. Soon we watch Tommy tortured by one sadistic relative, then abused by another sex-crazed next of kin. Some of these scenes are stylized (there's no spoken script in the film), but not for distance's sake. Russell continues to shoot close and uncomfortable: bad-breath cinema verite...
...Aaron Copland was the Norton lecturer in 1951-52 with "Music and Imagination." And in 1956-57 the painter Ben Shahn not only gave "exceptional lectures" on "The Shapes of Content" but he set up a studio in the basement of the Fogg museum, where he allowed students to watch him at work. Sometimes he helped them with their own. Four years before Shahn, e.e. cummings came to Harvard to present what have to be the most bizarre Norton lectures ever given: "i, six nonlectures." As with cumming's poetry, they're impossible to describe, but they seem...