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Friends say "learning something" is almost an obsession with Gould. An associate who has worked with him for five years says, "The amazing thing about Steve's work is that because of his broad range of interests, he's always learning from his own writing." And Gould's interests--and...
The slap of a clapper board indicates the start of a "take," and of this film. Few will note that the names on the slate are fictitious, not those of Reisz and his cinematographer Freddie Francis; but it is the first hint of the life-to-be outside the walls...
But wait. Those who find it so may have been seduced by the expectations the film has raised. For this sequence is neither period nor modern, neither the Fowles story nor the framing story, but a third dramatic level. Look at it this way: the viewer is in the screening...
The cause of the vanishing Indian became an obsession that dominated the rest of Catlin's life. He pestered Congress to buy his collection, and when it declined, took the whole shebang to England. There he happily found himself feted as a celebrity and a conversationalist (trimly stocky and...
They are also a short, sharp insight into the temper of the times, a compressed cultural iconography. It was plain that the sexual revolution had reached the suburbs when in 1968 Ford Motor Co. sold autos with a song urging: "It's the way to swing/ Go and have...