Word: lunchroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Memo to the principal: Do not be alarmed if your teachers walk up stairs with toes pointed in, then down again with toes pointed out. Or if they break into deep knee bends at the blackboard. Or if, standing in the lunchroom, they tighten first their feet, then their lower legs, thighs, buttocks and abdominal muscles...
...jammed into schools so that it's almost impossible to handle them. You see 200 kids in a 'study hall' which is nothing more than the balcony of the auditorium-with the orchestra practicing onstage; you see 2,000 kids shoved through a 200-capacity lunchroom in 22-minute shifts. In a lot of places, school amounts to nothing more today than 13 years of baby-sitting...
...champagne lunchroom after the inauguration President Bok warned against oversimplifying the issue of the relationship of Radcliffe and Harvard...
Worst about the film is its view of work in a factory situation: it resembles the buddy-buddy army of Hollywood's World War II. There is jovial scowling at work details, the obligatory lunchroom ogling of a big-bosomed French wench. There is no mention of union work or political organizing. There is little manager-inspired tension, or sense of monotony and ennui in the work processes...