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...another effect. Ironically, television, which had given such a boost to the civil rights movement, began to obstruct it and contribute mightily to the white blacklash. "Take the case of some recent footage on the Atlanta riots," says M.I.T. Political Scientist Harold Isaacs. "What you saw was a black blur of a face...
...realist. "He knows," says the narrator (Burgess Meredith), "that God is dead, that innocence is a fraud and guilt a disease, happiness a myth and despair a pose. And that vice is no more interesting than virtue." Henry works as a termite exterminator and looks like a large unshaven blur. Lorabelle (Ina Mela) is an idealist. "She believes in everything. In Providence and butterflies, romance and statuary." She plays all day long, sniffing flowers and feeding ducks, and looks like the dew on the wings of a wish...
...continues in Torn Curtain to experiment with visual romanticism: Julie Andrews is chastized by Newman on an airplane and as she lowers her head sadly, the camera while dissolving to the next scene begins to blur, as if tears were clouding the lens. Suddenly Hitchcock cuts sharply to the airplane door loudly opening, revealing the East Berlin airport. It is an unnerving return to reality, a visual refusal to give his heroine any means of escape...
...belies his agility and grace. Marichal's overhand pitching motion is wonderful to behold: rocking back, kicking his left foot high above his head-higher than any other pitcher in memory-he seems almost, for an instant, to be suspended on strings. Then, in one bewildering blur, he sweeps forward to release the ball, often so violently that he staggers sideways off the mound. That lone flaw in Juan's motion-the awkwardness of his follow-through-is forever giving batters bright ideas. "Why not just bunt him to death?" Houston's young Centerfielder Jimmy Wynn asked...
With 173 persons dead and thousands injured, Britain finally clamped on a state of emergency two years ago, and shrewdly called for new elections under a system of proportional representation. As expected, Jagan lost out to a coalition government headed by Burnham. Since then Burnham has tried to blur the country's color bars by setting up what he calls a "consultative democracy." He appointed a multiracial Cabinet, began conferring regularly with various racial groups, and did his best to form a color-blind government...