Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Revealing any more of the plot would be unethical; but perhaps this preview will encourage you to see I'he Sleeping Car Murder,which is an intelligent and exciting first film by a 34-year-old French director named Costa Gavras. Using an ingenious mystery by Sebastien Japrisot, who resembles Simenon but is fonder than he of elaborate puzzles, Gavras wrote an adaptation that is both thoroughly cinematic and faithful to the spirit of the book...
...stein. But often the style is a tour de force of the evocative and apt. When Graziani is interrogating suspects, the camera continually tracks and pans in short arcs, testing different angles as if conducting an investigation of its own. When the entire force starts work on the sleeping-car case, the camera tracks alongside the policemen and stops, glides around them and stops, moves back to reframe them and stops-hinting, I think, at the shifting world in which the police's leads materialize, establish new perpectives, and then, often as not, dissolve. So firmly does Gavras believe...
...second-rate car rental company threw in its lot with a second-rate university yesterday...
...biggest difference between Ford and G.M. this year concerns small, sporty cars. Ford's spunky Mustang has climbed to third place among all types, with sales up 11% to 211,793, and its success will probably earn for its creator, Group Vice President Lee lacocca, the presidency of Ford some day. G.M.'s scarcely competitive Corvair has been damaged so badly by criticism of the safety of its 196,063 models that sales are off 55% to 38,156, and its flop has hardly helped the ambitions of its creator, G.M. Executive Vice President Ed Cole. Nobody...
...Indigent Clarence Gideon's famous victory in 1963, all American adults now enjoy the right to counsel in felony cases. Now Florida may also produce a "junior Gideon" in the case of Thomas W. Parker, 16. Last fall Parker was accused of burglarizing a hotel room, stealing a car, and robbing an old man of 60? at pistol point. Denied counsel, Parker was sent to a training school until the age of 21. On appeal, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that a youngster is entitled to a lawyer whenever the charges against him equal adult felonies. Having lost...