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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fellini is not the statistical sort of realist who would take the average of all the girls in all the second-rate circuses in Italy, and cast the leading role as close as possible to this ideal. In fact, it is safe to say that no woman in the world is remotely like Giulietta Masina; that may be one reason her performance carries such conviction. Masina's face, though never down-rightly funny, is always comic--and usually pathetic into the bargain. Even when not made up in clown-white, it is a clown-face. It seems to be changing...
When the proxy vote came, it was close: 3,067,000 in favor of abolishing private schools, 3,544,000 against. Then, by a wide margin, the conference approved the committee report, which urges raising the compulsory school age from 15 to 16, seeks to do away with the rigorous examinations that now decide the educational future of most British children at the age of eleven...
When the pilot starts his attack on an enemy airplane, the Sidewinder tells him by a buzzing signal when it "sees" an object that it can home on. When the target is close enough, the pilot presses a button. The Sidewinder fires and is thereafter on its own, pursuing the target relentlessly. Its range is up to 20,000 ft., depending on many factors, including direction, altitude and speed of both airplanes. Frequently a Sidewinder gets in a jet's wake and flies right up the tailpipe before it explodes...
...took over in 1956 when the company was racked by management troubles. He streamlined operations, brought in new executive brains, paid off the $25.9 million debt, and strengthened Philco's position in the laundry field by buying out Bendix. Skinner is convinced that Philco will come close to last year's sales despite its first five bad months. Says he: "We are in a pleasant position. We believe this trend will continue into...
...Author Robbe-Grillet, hero of Europe's avant-garde critics, has written a sort of whodunit in which the question of whodunit is never answered. To a French offshore island comes Mathias, a watch salesman. Little is told about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration, like that of Lolita's Humbert Humbert, involves young girls. As his boat approaches the island, he sees a girl of seven or so on the deck, and in his mind a hallucination forms in which the child becomes a sexual victim...