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...Russian film and naturally there's plenty of pseudo-classic montage, dramatic sky and stark, navel-level camera work, but the really exciting footage owes something to the early German directors. Wasn't it Robert Weine who painted the foreboding expressionist shadows on the set of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? And Carl Mayer who strapped a camera on Carl Freund, the "drunk" camera man of The Last Laugh...
...among the first to congratulate the artist on a magnificent portrait. Its stark drabness makes one swallow and look again; Oswald's searching eyes reveal the madman he really was. Moreover, it is interesting to speculate on the meaning of the stained wall behind...
...James Joyce had lived 20 years longer he would have produced as his chef d'oeuvre, Courses of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe. Such a rich vision of reality, so wide a breadth of knowledge, such stark symbolism is indeed beyond the reach of any contemporary writer. Today the CRIMSON literati have pooled their talents to analyze the T. Th. (S.) sections of the master-work and help all you striving Daedaluses reach the equanimity of Leopold Bloom...
...figures are stark, but their significance is by no means certain. Some responsible men have used them to indicate dire change; to others they are statistical signs of heartening progress...
...hell kind of question is that?" he rasped. A longer silence. Finally, Bauer smiled and hoisted the dewy can. "Naaaah," he said. "The heat don't bother them, 'cause they drink this here good beer." And with that, the manager of the Baltimore Orioles marched off, stark naked, to the shower...