Word: celluloid
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...Gannett string of daily newspapers totaled only a modest 19 when its founder Frank Gannett died 15 years ago. All but three were concentrated in upstate New York. The Gannett image at the time was that of a celluloid-collar, low-budget exercise in small-city publishing, distinguished mainly by a ban on cigarette and liquor ads that reflected Gannett's personal prohibitions. Then Paul Miller took over as his boss's designated successor and the group took off. Today the Gannett Co., Inc. owns 52 dailies and 14 weeklies, more than any other U.S. chain...
This is where that relentless pursuit has finally led: straight over the cliff and into a sea where dream and reality merge with haunting fluidity. The most fantastic appearances are lent an ceric reality by celluloid and by the night. At night and on film, the huge painted sky shadowing Twentieth's "Western Town" (a sky which, by day, seems absurdly naive in its patent fakery) loses its hard edges and seems to soar up into the "real" sky. Its splashes of white cloud float free, lit by a moon whose own reality you cannot feel sure...
...point Welles announces, in a transparently phony Yiddish accent that merits the censure of the Anti-Defamation League, that "there is no such thing as an empty hand. There's no such thing as nothing." But there is something that comes close to it -these 94 minutes on celluloid...
...answer must be met with a Sophie-like acedia from the viewer. This pseudoexistential drama is the celluloid version of novocain, deadening whatever-or whomever-it touches. Events are talked about, not shown. Sophie deals in fatuous aphorisms ("Answering services are for muffling the services of the dying"). Her acquaintances reply with even more glittering zircons. One character, admiring a pair of inexpensive Italian shoes, hoots, "What multitudes we recline...
...housing. Since most locks have been used for several years, there's no way of knowing how many former residents have keys, and how many copies have been passed around. And some spring-backed locks can be easily "slipped" with a thin metal strip or a piece of flexible celluloid--a Coop-card, for instance...