Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catches sight of the ripple of a hare darting through the high grass and instantly turns to fire at it. The first thing he does after shooting the German officer who has come to take France and her grandmother away to a concentration camp is to steal a gold watch from the dead man--a watch the German had stopped Lucien himself from stealing, earlier, from France's baggage. And Lucien's peasant instincts are part of a whole social outlook whose chief maxim is to look out for your own interests. One man writes to the Gestapo to denounce...
...breakneck speed while Django Reinhardt plays guitar at breakneck speed on the soundtrack; France playing Beethoven or rising from bathing in a stream, like a figure out of myth; the grandmother opening herself up to nature at last, as she bends down with the eye of benevolent intelligence to watch a cricket on a leaf at sunset; the innate elegance and courage of Albert Horn; the noble face of the aristocrat's hound; and the images of the countryside itself, unearthly grey before a thunderstorm, intensely green beneath the rain...
...worth seeing this week when compared to the Mario Puzo/Marlon Brando blockbuster, so we'll play it their way. Actually, this isn't bad movie. The critics said it was one of the rare films that mix mass appeal with artistic merit, and that is probably true. As you watch it, you should be mildly offended that NBC paid Paramount $10 million to show it one time, and that NBC in turn charged advertisers about $200,000 for one minute of air time. Fuck 'em by turning off the set during the ads. Ch. 4, 9 p.m. Color, 2 hours...
...eight Greek undergraduates at Harvard, Hadzilacos lives off-campus and, like an incredible proportion of the rest of the Greek men in the association, wears both a beard and an expensive wrist watch. He came here "a liberal," Hadzilacos says...
...didn't practice yesterday, but he went down to watch the team work out. As he left his room in Mather House for the stadium, Curtin threw a book of Yeats into a denim satchel...