Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...director, John Sturges, uses the same technique Sergio Leone did in Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. Sequences, especially those leading up to a shooting match, look like they're filmed in slow motion. They aren't. It's just that the camera--instead of sticking to a man, dogging him step by step--focuses on what's static around him. Expanses of desert or mountain or sun-bleached wall. So the violence that ensues seems less the result of cowboy determination than of fate...
...political tensions of the School Committee aren't about to disappear. They are built into Cambridge and the City's proportional representation voting system. PR means simply that your vote counts for only one man, and conversely that each Committeeman owes his election to a specific constituency, and must be very sensitive to that group if he wants to be reelected...
Well, damn if they aren't right, in a way. There's something to be said for assembling one hundred fifty young men in white tie on a single stage and letting loose their combined vocal chords. The sound of so titanic a Mannerchor would have sent Wagner writhing in ecstasy...
...work force lean, refused to hire his own nephew after Rex Blazer graduated from the University of Illinois ('28). "If you are as good as you think you are," said Uncle Paul, "you won't get any credit for it because you are my nephew. If you aren't that good, I'll have to fire you, and the family already has enough trouble." Paul Blazer loaned his nephew $20 for one-way fare to Cleveland, where Rex got a job with Allied Oil Co. By the time that Allied was acquired by Ashland...
Walking on Clouds. The foundation's shock technique attempts to jar the children into attention and keep them from being distracted. Administrative Director S. Willard Footlik explains that the degree of force is fitted to the needs of each pupil and contends that "the children realize we aren't yelling at them because we're mad at them." The commands, he says, are always something the children are capable of carrying out-and when they do, "they walk on clouds because they have succeeded." The harsh drills are designed to help the children to control their actions...