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...empty corridors, the bilingual signboards, knocked askew by wreckers and furniture movers, crazily pointed the way to nowhere. In the big lounge where delegates from 60 nations had tirelessly argued-or tiredly tried to forget their arguments-scuffed and dusty furniture stood waiting for the auctioneer. After nearly five years, United Nations headquarters was moving away from its reconverted war plant at Lake Success and into its new steel and glass building in mid-Manhattan...
...picture supposes that the world has been hit by vast clouds of atomic dust that reduce the population to skeletons while leaving almost everything else strangely untouched. Late in the movie, this makes for some well-shot, eerie scenes as the heroine revisits the ghost city askew in the grotesque attitudes of suddenly interrupted life...
...called the top Soviet espionage agent in the U.S. At frequent intervals, he sipped from a small brown bottle of cough medicine. By the time he had finished, four hours later, his thinning black hair was rumpled and damp with sweat. His necktie was loosened and yanked askew...
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...