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Beyond Doubt. For five hours, French and Italian naval vessels and helicopters searched the area until they found an oil slick and a few bits of debris, including a spare-parts tag that bore the name Eurydice. In the loss of the Minerve, authorities had held out hope for four days because the crew had an air supply of 100 hours. In last week's tragedy, they were forced to tell families and relatives immediately that the Eurydice's 56 crewmen, as well as a visiting Pakistani naval officer, were lost beyond doubt...
...with staccato bursts of images, much like the structure of Robert Lapoujade's brilliant Le Socrate . But in that film the quick cutting served as a form of chorus, while here the psychic icons of the central characters create a mosaic of emotional cross-references, used in turn to bore, startle, perplex, or electrify the viewer. The nature of these icons, which compose the main body of the film's formal statement, is too varied to effectively catalogue here, but includes a great deal of crude psycho-social imagery concerning the fall of idealism since the second World...
Communist Canteens. The refugees were mostly old men and women and small children in ragged clothes. There were few young adults; most of them are in the hills with the Pathet Lao. The refugees' eyes bore the blank, stoic look I have seen so often in the faces of peasants dispossessed by the Indo-China War, and relics of that war were everywhere. Many refugees carried standard North Vietnamese army canteens...
...decision to move the hospital site bore only an incidental relation to the fact that original plans called for the destruction of large numbers of homes. Conceivably, this decision might have been made on the grounds that many families would otherwise have been displaced, and that the subsequent loss of low-income housing would have constricted an already tight housing market. Going a step further, the decision could have been made in consultation with the tenants themselves. Neither of these things was done...
...about the two of you "building something together" and never anything about taking it as it comes. I don't know why- maybe all those experts, who have so much to say. found in middle life that all that building they did has turned out to be a bore, crashing down on them. terrifying them with its waste, making them jealous of all those bursting pubescence who haven't missed the boat yet and who, if left to their own devices, might find their way through to something for themselves that's a lot better than that fucking building...