Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Second Tongue" [ESSAY, Feb. 6] is very good stuff. Obviously, space limitations prevented you from referring to that sort of political mission known as "fact finding." I went on such a mission once, found a fact, picked it up with tweezers, and now keep it in a cigar box in my garage in case there is ever any demand...
...United Jewish Appeal audience in Washington why he believed such a sale was necessary, Hussein blew up. What many Americans saw as a bold step by Reagan in an election year seemed humiliating to Hussein. At this point, as the King told TIME editors and correspondents last week (see box), private protest seemed futile and he decided to go public. At the same time, his American-born wife, Queen Noor, who was already touring the U.S., began making speeches on her husband's behalf. In Washington last week, she declared that U.S. ideals are being eroded by "an intransigent...
Five "new"Hitchcock films reaffirm his box-office magnetism...
...significant revival. Five Hitchcock films are back where they belong, in the movie theaters, after 20 years in distribution limbo. Constituting the best and the least of Hitchcock's work during his most productive decade (1948-58), the "forbidden five" are once again demonstrating their director's box-office magnetism. Rear Window (1954), the first of the quintet to be rereleased, has earned $6.8 million in just five months, and Vertigo (1958) has taken in more than $3 million since the end of December. The Trouble with Harry (1955) has just opened to good business, and similar grosses...
...shot duration, the dramatic use of color, sound and editing. As two future film makers, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, wrote of the director in 1957, "In Hitchcock's work, form does not embellish content, it creates it." Hitchcock, less interested in universal theories than in the international box office, put his artistic aims more matter of factly: "The Japanese audience should scream at the same time as the Indian audience...