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Halos Askew. Against this backdrop, Brad and Val drift towards a hoked-up farewell. Brad volunteers for a suicide outfit with a D-day dawn mission, only to find that his last-minute C.O. is Val's other lover, John. As they make the beach yards apart, both men nearly buy it-but live to come out of it with a reluctant mutual respect. Back in England a few days later, with sacrificial halos slightly askew. Brad and Val call it quits: "She said, 'Turn your head away.' He knew she was leaving...
...Corbusier designed the exterior of the church to create what he called "an acoustic component in the domain of form." Then he designed one outer wall of the church as an outdoor backdrop for large pilgrimage ceremonies. By using old brick left over from the previous church, plus concrete, Le Corbusier priced the new chapel...
...tragicomedy of Katharine the Shrewd and Kate the Romantic is played out against the overpowering Technicolor backdrop of Venice. At first. Katharine is all businesslike competence: she industriously snaps photos, craftily measures out tips, keeps her basilisk eye fixed warily on the untrustworthy Italians. But then the Venetian magic begins; she throws open her pensione window to a vista of blue sky, green water and honey-colored walls. She walks along the canals, dazed by the murmurous dusk, by the majesty of campanile and palace, by the whisper of a distant guitar. Few actresses in films could equal Hepburn...
Soldier of Fortune (20th Century-Fox) plays out its tiny melodrama against the vast, eye-filling CinemaScope backdrop of Hong Kong harbor. Incredible islands rise perpendicular from the blue sea, and fleets of fishing junks, like floating windmills, drift by on the tide. Ashore, the narrow streets are jammed with the swarming, anonymous humanity of Asia, while high up on green terraces gleam the flowered palaces of the rich...
...expecting an infantry attack. 'We are completely encircled.' a report came through to us. Outside I could see a number of grotesquely related things: fire leaping from densely packed wooden shacks; a rat scurrying down a gutter to escape; refugees huddled or fleeing, silhouetted against the red backdrop, beneath the city-wide canopy of smoke. Here and there on the sidewalk lay pairs of wooden clogs; their owners had jumped out of them so they could flee more quickly, barefoot, to shelter...