Word: clips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintain the United States' dominant position in Latifundia, a fictional South American country, sounds like the inevitable background for one more pale carbon copy of The Ugly American. Classified communiques pop up like toast at the breakfast table, a recording device is hidden in a tie clip, new leaders are found by a spin-the-bottle technique, and the real rapport between nations rests on a Jellolike foundation of friendship between Latifundia's President and the American ambassador. Despite the apparently insurmountable handicap of so familiar a scenario, Robert Wool has managed to produce a finely written first...
...director, Milos Forman, appears in a film clip at the beginning of the movie to give an idea of what his film is about. He says that when it came out in Czechoslovakia, forty thousand firemen resigned, and in order to appease them he had to say that the firemen in the film were actually symbolic representations of society. But then, in a real comment about himself, he undercuts everything he has said by stating that the film is just about firemen. Forman presents a simple story that might easily be loaded with meaning--but he denies that...
...shown dancing the boogaloo; then the camera moves in to reveal that the girl is painted head to feet with silly graffiti. Other sight gags are madly literal-minded or engagingly sly. When the announcer calls for a station break, the camera will switch to a trick film clip showing an elephant's foot squashing a TV station. When a commercial is announced, a man ostensibly from Allstate Insurance will cup his hands around a tiny house, saying "You're in good hands with . . .," and drop the house with a great shattering crash. In other sequences, a girl...
...that basis, G.M. initiated an investigation. The trouble in all three cars was traced to defective steel clips, penny-sized and costing less than 10 apiece to produce, that were part of the carburetor assemblies. Because that same sort of clip had been used in almost all of G.M.'s six-cylinder cars, the huge recall notice went...
...enjoys cooking the duck, goose and turkey that he bags on shooting expeditions. He also likes to sew?a talent he picked up from his tailor-father. His dress runs to conservative dark suits. When he was Governor, Muskie invariably wore a clip-on bow tie, but he has since returned to four-in-hand ties. Though his tall, ruggedly handsome figure is an undoubted contribution to the image of the ticket, his five-inch advantage over Humphrey will inevitably invite Mutt and Jeff caricatures...