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During the past eight months, Northern California has been terrorized by a wave of mass murders and rapes. In Santa Cruz, a succession of coeds from the University of California campus and nearby Cabrillo College disappeared. They were found weeks or months later, decapitated. In all, seemingly random murders took the lives of 19 people around Santa Cruz, including a priest who was stabbed to death in his confessional booth. In the Nob Hill area of San Francisco, a number of Oriental women were assaulted, raped and cut up with knives. One was murdered; another barely survived 22 wounds...
...filming. Bulle Ogier, best known for her performance in La Salamandre, sensitively depicts Claire as a woman whose self-destructiveness lurks under a surface of softness. Little signs -- as when she teases her husband's friends -- hint at the tension developing underneath. In her increasing paranoia she starts catching random fragments of conversation and music on a tape recorder...
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...camera roams over the crowd, Vegas in the South of France, eagerly fondling waitress Camille, while her lout husband seethes. From there, Truffaut films a short Western sequence. It's as if his characters had been dropped onto a John Ford backlot and allowed to pursue each other at random. These scenes are regularly scheduled...
...other extreme, the danger is more complex: that the color surface will grow streaky or wavy and start asserting forms of its own in defiance of the edges. This occurs particularly in the earlier sprayed canvases, when the field begins to look like a random set of tones instead of a unified surface in controlled transition. Danger here also takes the form of boring all-over-ness in a few paintings where Olitski attempts to place one plane of color on top of another, binding the second plane into the picture by making it recede on one side and advance...