Word: askew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even The Third Man's flaws are largely the product of its brilliance. To build atmosphere, Reed has filmed much of the picture with the camera slightly askew; after a while, the angle calls too much attention to itself. He has a way of emptying the streets at his convenience and peopling them suddenly when it suits him., And toward the end, he stages a chase through the city's sewers which, for all its self-sustaining excitement, comes after the story's major suspense has been resolved. But these are minor faults in the work...
...Administration. The facts: 1) the Joint Chiefs had decided, only to be reversed, that the U.S. should help deny Formosa to the Communists by methods successfully used in Greece; 2) Britain's decision to recognize the Chinese Communists (see INTERNATIONAL) appeared to have put the U.S.-British alignment askew; 3) a Tokyo dispatch reported that the State Department had blithely advised its staff by memo-on Dec. 23, before the President had made his own decision-to play down the strategic importance of Formosa and anticipate its fall...