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...Pauline never explained what the nature of an "individual response" is, or what is a "new kind of film". In fact, like a self-conscious frontierswoman, she used the words "new" and "individual" as conundrums. It soon became clear that Kael is a dyed-in-the-sawdust anti-intellectual. The "experience" of a movie, for Kael, is both dramatic, and visually, sensually evocative. But, while standing on the line which divides those who look to narrative art for a structured vision of the world from those who just like movies for the fun of it, Kael comes down hard...
...three inches above the previous record set in the flood-disaster year of 1952. Michigan State authorities have already computed the damage of an imminent deluge: $112 million. It has been so mild in Wisconsin that a recent snowmobile championship race in Eagle Rock had to be run on sawdust. In New York City minimal snowfall meant a budgetary windfall: millions of dollars allocated for snow removal were never spent. Meanwhile, Lander, Wyo., this winter froze solid at an average of 10.6° below its norm...
SATURDAY: Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) Early and influential Bergman...
...with the pimply weirdos of what the backgrounder describes as the "McGovern Crowd," who sound like a gang of ultraviolence freaks out of A Clockwork Orange. The backgrounder notes that it was the "McGovern Crowd" who "humiliated the party leaders at Miami Beach and rubbed their noses in the sawdust of that political circus;" and who "boasted, with adolescent arrogance, that they were the 'new politics...
...buddy again was a wonderful reward for me." But he added: "Imagine Hubert Humphrey on that ticket, and then you start showing the things we disagree on. Or poor old Hubert, he just had to get on. He just couldn't remain off. He smelled the sawdust again and there he's in the ring. Well, bull. I don't need to be in the ring. I'm just not going to leave myself open to any more humiliating, debilitating exposure. I don't want anything from George. There isn't a single thing...