Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...looks terrible," says a West Berliner of Anna. "Typically East." This one comic, ironic touch may do more to unnerve the audience's conscience than the final close-up of two dead hands which almost meet. But perhaps the Berliners have been through enough to take their "frontier between you and your child" dialogue straight...
Freshman Swimming; Freshman Intramural Dorm Chairman; Kirkland House Committee '59-'60 (Chairman '60-'61); House Swimming, Tennis, Touch Football; Bat Club; D.E. Club; Hasty Pudding; Junior Usher...
...dialogue not very difficult to comprehend, translated adequately by the subtitles (though, of course, without the many nuances which were important to the film) and, in general, much more fun than a language lab. Actually, though, much of the humor was wordless; director Rene Clair has not lost his touch for creating telling little dramas without dialogue (also without subtlety, as was most of the film...
...stories of men at war seem simple to the point of casualness. But in Umaru he conveys in five short pages a deep feeling for Africa and for the ever-present officer-enlisted man relationship. His touch with children is just as sure; their cruelties, independence and singlemindedness are as transparent to him as they are incomprehensible to most adults. And the ironies of middle age hold no mysteries for him, either. The Breakout is an almost classic story of what happens to the poor devil who knows that neither his wife nor children really need him. When the victim...
...Leverett Towers constitute Harvard's contribution to low-cost housing: one thousand windows, precisely the same: one thousand radiators, precisely the same (no fireplaces); one thousand cheap (and ugly) linoleum floors--and untold millions of utilitarian cinder blocks, many of them unpainted. Every morning when I wake up and touch my ceiling (I do not have to stand on tip toes to do so) I am reminded of how much like insects all of us "Towerites" are: those of us with rooms facing east are awakened by the heat and light of the sun shining through our utilitarian windows...