Word: bottomley
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Once the comic opera and the skin scenes are out of the way, it's time to have the confrontation between DeSalvo and John Bottomley, the dogged law-professor-cum--special investigator, (Henry Fonda plus moustache) who has been commissioned to track the killer down. Aside from a brief interlude in which Bottomley confesses his secret worry--"I'm beginning to like this"--to his wife, the interrogation and, predictably and inevitably, the breakdown of DeSalvo takes place against a searingly white background. Once you've mulled for six or seven seconds over the symbolic significance of the white...
Throughout the interrogation, Fonda portrays Bottomley as a subtle mixture of priest and detective, probing DeSalvo to extract the confession that he wants. Unfortunately, the finesse in the interrogation ends there. The camera cuts in for overly searching closeups of Curtis, whose baggy faces droops a millimeter or two as he finally coughs up the secrets of his "other self." To let even the dullest know what's happening, a hand-held camera stumbles behind the strangler re-enacting--in the psychic presence of Bottomley--one of his slayings. A few multiple image projections here, as throughout the film, serve...
...rebellious left wing, moved from Housing to Leader of the House, a position that will make him responsible for corralling the rebel Laborites, whose abstentions have been embarrassing to the Prime Minister. The former Leader of the House, Herbert Bowden, moved to the Ministry for Commonwealth Affairs, replacing Arthur Bottomley, whose inability to settle the Rhodesian crisis made him some thing of a liability. Still, Bottomley was not expelled from the Cabinet; instead he was shifted to the Ministry for Overseas Development, a post that was made vacant by moving Anthony Greenwood to Minister of Housing...
...confident," Commonwealth Relations Secretary Arthur Bottomley told Parliament in London last week, "that this will mark the beginning of a new and happy era in Anglo-Maldivian relations." But even that did not seem very likely. Rather than join the worldwide stampede of newly emerging nations, the Maldives seem intent on submerging. They are not going to join the Commonwealth. They have not applied for membership in the United Nations. Nor, apparently, will they seek diplomatic relations with any nation anywhere. The closest thing the Maldivians have to a foreign service, in fact, is a Male fish trader...
...Bottomley came away with no easy answers. Shortly before he flew back to London last week to report to Wilson, he told reporters that he had been trying "to find a way for the British and Rhodesian governments, and the African nationalists, to arrive at a solution whereby there could be a peaceful transition to majority rule." Added he: "I do not say how or when...