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...exercised great perceptivity of the mind's movement--its means of wish-fulfillment fantasizing, its rhythms. But one aspect of his method that can be identified is his use of close-ups. Objects inherently grotesque, though subdued by their everyday contexts, often fill his Panavision screen: fishguts on a butcher's block, kidneys plopping into a cat's dish. The viewer perceives that what might have been a "shock image" in Polanski or Hitchcock has not been used as such, but has been subdued by its context, as such things are in our everyday consciousness...
...Holy Toledo! One of the best TIME covers I've seen. Conrad even makes good play on the brand name of the scales that we see in butcher shops and bus stations from Rocky's New York to Ronnie's California. Truly a picture worth a thousand votes. Let's have more of Conrad as the boys jockey for position on the way to the starting gate...
...rest of the cast, Janet Leslie played an aging light-lipped neurotic; Francine Stone, a garrulous lady in waiting; Thomas Babe, an intense butcher-surgeon. They were fine...
...seems to hang there and then drift toward the rear, and Jackie springs up on her stained knees . . . and sprawls on the sloping back of the car, defeated." John Connally, suddenly covered with blood, thought instantly of riding as a boy in the family Model T after helping butcher cattle, then realizing that he himself was hit, "fills his lungs and screams and screams and screams...
Most beef cattle are doomed to the butcher's block. Not Sam 951. A 2,500-lb. Charolais breeding bull, Sam lives in a red-carpeted, maple-paneled building, breathes humidity-controlled air. By pampering him, Owners Charley Litton, 56, and Son Jerry, 29, of Chillicothe, Mo., hope to keep the eight-year-old animal going at assembly-line efficiency for at least seven more years. Like other prize breeding bulls, Sam is big business; this year alone, he is expected to sire more than 8,000 calves by artificial insemination...