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Last week's Thursday night session included Band of Outsiders. A gangster story with a twist, it tells the story of two con-men, Franz and Arthur, and their attempt to work over a young girl, Odile (played by the one and only Anna Karina). One of Godard's lesser known films, it nonetheless embodies the curious mix between word and image, humor and tragic romance, that is so very Godard. Characters are lonely but have no desire to connect to those around them. Awkwardness only occurs within familiar situations. Dialogue is impulsive and witty...
Godard's deep-voiced narrator even instructs us on how to react and read the images and characters of his film by entering into the film periodically, creating cinematic parentheses. The narrative voice enters, for example, when the three main characters are at a dance club. Odile, Franz and Arthur move across the floor in a beautiful synchrony. In this way we are brought into the mental worlds of the three main characters. Odile wonders whether the men who flank her on either side notice her breasts bobbing beneath her schoolgirl sweater. Arthur imagines kissing Odile. And the ever-slick...
...might have come from Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain: Dignity, always dignity. An early color version of the business section was reportedly sent back by top editors, who found its turquoise-and-orange charts too reminiscent of USA Today. Color in the Times will be "sophisticated," says Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the paper's boyishly exuberant publisher. He likes to recall a focus-group session the paper did several years ago in Connecticut. Shown some proposed changes in the Times, one woman was appalled. "I don't read the paper," she said, "but it can't change!" Says Sulzberger...
Whoever runs the Times next may have to do it within a drastically changed company. One question is who will take over when Punch Sulzberger, 71, retires as CEO. Though his son is heir-apparent, there is speculation that other family members may challenge young Arthur for the title or at least insist that the jobs of ceo and publisher (combined under Punch) be separated. Meanwhile, the company--flush with cash after selling off several sports and leisure magazines--is shopping for a substantial acquisition or two in the next year. If the Times Co. were to purchase a major...
...Previously a design director at the Boston Globe, Hoffman doesn't miss the daily deadlines. "Now I can dig more deeply," she says, although at TIME that can mean digging deep into the night. "Cynthia gets to the core of every story she is working on," says art director Arthur Hochstein, "and presents it in the simplest, clearest way to the reader...