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...white for innocence, black for death) and the impeccable performances. But Bergman's characteristic flaws are present as well. Occasionally, a scene becomes annoyingly stylized: Karin looks at that piece of glass for what seems like a full five minutes, and the talk in which she and Maria finally commit themselves is smothered by caresses and Chopin. The dialogue is sometimes brittle and ridiculously abstracted (Karin talks of suicide at the slightest provocation--this might just be the English subtitles...
...Bergman's fine structure and masterful direction of visuals and actors finally overcomes his minor clumsiness. Now his main challenge is philosophic. He must commit himself to an even harder task than the one he has set himself here. He must start to give us his solutions to problems of these characters' lives...
...second half of Lemmings is a brilliantly sustained rock parody called the Woodshuck Festival. One million young people have gathered to "off" themselves (commit suicide) in mass protest. But first they hear from their secular gods. Joan Baez (Mary-Jennifer Mitchell) takes the mike holding babe in arms: "Pull the triggers, niggers, we're with you all the way...just across the Bay...I'm the world's Madonna...I'm needed from Belfast to Bangladesh...
...freedom on behalf of Henry Kissinger's right to return to Harvard surely places a strained interpretation on that term. If academic freedom means nothing more than the freedom of academics to do as they please--to wander off for an unspecified number of years like a prodigal son, commit war crimes or participate in an immoral presidency--then it is difficult to defend. If academic freedom involved the freedom to advance opinions and theories violating the popular wisdom then it shouldn't be controversial...
...would on a workday. The idea was to show that there was little to celebrate and that little had changed-a point Thieu made repeatedly in a combative TV address to the nation. "There is no peace yet," he said. "This is only a standstill ceasefire. If the Communists commit small cease-fire violations, we will respond with small actions. If they commit big violations, we will respond with big actions...