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...Enough Rope. In a proper French suspense thriller, the question is less likely to be whodunit than who'll-be-undone-by-it. Here, nearly every member of a fine, worried cast is slowly undone when Veteran Director Claude Autant-Lara (Devil in the Flesh) begins to philosophize on film about the complex, overlapping nature of guilt. Putting the squeeze on a crafty plot from a novel by Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train), Autant-Lara seemingly distills a number of small, disturbing revelations and holds each one up to the light, testing for color, clarity and body...
...other ways, art has gone beyond all limits. Americans have quickly run through abstract expressionism, action painting, pop, op, kinetic and minimal art. With gravely innocent eye, the public contemplates art consisting of a real chair or a coiled rope, of limp sculpted toilets, of nudes that go through movements of coition. Like the young, artists are traditionally supposed to break with tradition, but there is hardly any tradition to break with. Irish, Southern and Jewish writers have been among the most productive in the U.S.-probably because they still have a tradition to work in, or to flout...
There were strange gatherings. A vote would come that would be no vote. There would come a rope...
...there would come a rope...
Nicosia looked as tranquil as the Mediterranean that laps the island's shores. In one suburb, children skipped rope while their elders played tennis near by. It took a sharp eye to spot the sandbags piled in upper-story windows. Behind some sat flinty-eyed Greek Cypriots with automatic weapons. Behind others were grim-faced Turkish Cypriots with bolt-action rifles. On a roof behind still another row of sandbags stood a Danish noncom attached to the United Nations peacekeeping force, stationed in Cyprus for the past two years. "Sure, it's dull today," he said...