Word: blackboarding
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...appalled by the fact that Goethe refused to send Beethoven money when the composer was in desperate need. Haider's best friend, Maurice (Gary Waldhorn), is a Jewish psychoanalyst. Yet in the course of this drama, Haider erases his conscience like chalk on a lecture-room blackboard. At Good's end, this decent, liberal-minded scholar has become Eichmann's right-hand man at Auschwitz...
...sort of shenanigans that pop up in just about every R-rated teen movie these days. Call it Contact High. There you will find no teachers, only agents; no exams, only screen tests; no graduation, only the picking up of options. The boys are feral carnivores out of The Blackboard Jungle; the girls are pert Circes out of a sophomore's wet dream. The nice guys surf, smoke dope and screw around; the bad ones torch autos, walk with a surly Gestapo swagger and carve their initials in the nearest human flesh. There is never a dull moment, never...
...Ingmar Bergman painted a lovely gloss on the subject in Smiles of a Summer Night. So why can't Allen have more fun with it? No film labeled a sex comedy should offer the truism "Marriage is the death of hope" four times, to be written on the blackboard of the moviegoer's mind. No Woody Allen comedy should mosey for arid stretches without a well-turned gag. And no director should insist that actresses like Farrow and Steenburgen affect the wild ringlets and neurotic stammer of previous Allen girleens...
...center of campus, in an elaborately choreographed ideological skit. On sunny days, CARPies would set up a card table with assorted Moon literature at a central campus transit point Nearby, an associate would lecture to passers by while scrawling compiles and incomprehensible theological diagrams on a portable blackboard. They always managed to keep talking, though students rarely stopped to listen...
...tinges Jakob's world with Kafkaesque visions. As he talks to the director of the physics institute, Jakob realizes that the man "hadn't heard a word. But perhaps he hadn't said anything." The resident assistant professor erases Jakob's equations and Scrawls in a corner of the blackboard, "Prof. Jakob's space." The janitor steals Jakob's equipment. Jakob can only retaliate by writing a note to the director; "The custodian must be fired or he will gain certain tyranny over...