Word: belled
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Olivetti has gained access to AT&T's famed Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, which employs some 13,000 technicians. The Italian company brought its own valuable dowry to the union, specifically an international marketing network that AT&T lacked. The two firms have begun to sell each other's products in their respective geographic areas. AT&T will introduce its Dimension System 85, an in-house telephone exchange, in Europe through its new partner. Olivetti in turn is providing AT&T with electronic work stations and personal computers for sale...
...said ABC News Executive Vice President David Burke. "They're no different from anybody else." The resulting broadcasts spent little time explaining the restrictions that were imposed or discussing the possibility that Vietnamese officials might be using American TV as a propaganda ploy. One notable exception: ABC Correspondent Steve Bell's scrupulously detailed account of the curbs encountered during a tour of a military base...
...much as one admires the discipline of the cinema verite cameraman, sooner or later there comes a time when one wants to scream at him, "Stop being a camera! Start being a human being!" There are many of these moments in Streetwise, a film by Director-Cameraman Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall, about adolescents adrift on the streets of Seattle. The first, surely, is when Erin, one of the principal subjects, calmly discusses with a doctor how she became a prostitute before she had had her first period. Another occurs when her alcoholic mother suggests that streetwalking...
...there is something that is finally repellent about Streetwise. Bell is a fine camera craftsman: he can make a scene shot in available light look as if it were shot on a sound stage. But this virtue can be a defect, for it distances the audience from the grim occurrences. By the end of the film, DeWayne is dead, with an empty Coke can resting on his coffin. One does not question the truth of that shot, only the sensibility that permits it to survive the final cut. Streetwise keeps demonstrating the cliche that life too often resembles...
...serious side of De Vries has been subject to considerable analysis, most of it attempts to align the author's dour Dutch Calvinist upbringing with his development as a comic writer. To borrow a De Vriesian analogy, such treatment is like putting the reader into a diving bell and taking him down 3 ft. His latest novel counters that effect by granting his fans a chance to wet their feet once again in the forbidding shallows of sex, money and social class...