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...faculty will reconvene the meeting at 2 p. m. today to continue its discussion. Yesterday's meeting was one of the longest in Law School history...
...dance marathon a craze largely unknown to the post-war generation, is one of the saddest cultural artifacts of the Great Depression. These widely publicized exercises in masochism, in which couples would compete to see who could stay on a dance floor the longest (sometimes two and three months), were actually the cruelest of promotional gimmicks. The businessmen who ran them charged admission to the sadistic audiences who watched, solicited business "sponsors" for the couples-and cleaned up in the process. Even the grand prize offered to the winners would be a phony: the marathon's "bills" would suddenly...
...process of disintegration and the loss of the mythic anticipation culminated with a group of skits put on by the caravan the?er. Which bombed. Policemen are standing in the usual little clumps, foundling their enormous nightsticks, as if (does it need saving?) they were the longest hardest pricks in the world. We have only what we have, and we are certainly not fondling anything as it grows colder and colder. And a whole segment of the march line on Tremont Street is jumping up and down with blood curdling pogo stick yells, but it is only to keep warm...
Waiting Out the Rain Even so, she may not be the greatest Fonda. It has taken Peter the longest to establish priorities, to coincide his in- telligence and his energy. He still guns his emotional engine too loud, and the exhaust from his pronunciamentos of ten obscures the man. "Peter has made a career of not being repressed," says Susan Blanchard. But the career has gone from bullying waste to something measurable. His scenario for Easy Rider was sometimes self-indulgent. Its villains were as exaggerated and snarling as the overdrawn wrongos of his Dad's old oaters...
...MOLLY MAGUIRES has all the technical magnificence of the biggest Hollywood productions. Some 200 tons of anthracite coal were shipped from Mahoney, Pennsylvania to the studio in Hollywood for a coal wall. Paramount Studios built the longest interior setting ever constructed on a Hollywood sound stage to simulate the interior of the coal mine. With a passion for realistic detail Ritt shot the film in a coal town in Eckley, Pennsylvania. All the homes in the town were repainted slate gray, the color of coal dust, giving a sense of the misery of the time...