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...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...
...more remarkable bits of staging was a film clip of Sherman being interviewed on two screens with a portrait hanging in the middle. The interchange of shots is bristling and in perfect rapport with the equally stirring language thrusts. Sherman is played by Tim Mayer who creates a wierdly fascinating character--the tortured and melodiously wicked psyche of a Historical Man, in the sense of a man who has tasted the feel of strangling men, and cannot forget...
...Paper-Clip Building. IDA was founded in 1956, after the loint Chiefs of Staff discovered that it did not have enough civilian experts to study all its weapons problems. The Institute, which is headed by General Maxwell Taylor, now employs 575 full-time civilian analysts in a high-arched, eleven-story building (dubbed "the paper-clip building") in Washington plus 50 communications experts housed in a Princeton campus building leased by IDA. Government agencies request IDA for specific research help; this year the Institute is handling 100 projects costing...