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...counterparts where sex was concerned. Vishnevskaya's account of the filming of a bedroom scene: "My lover, who was in full uniform, crawled in after me. I put a thick blanket between us, and announced that we were ready to shoot." As the cameras moved in for a closeup, the director shouted: "Pull the quilt over your breast . . . Artem, don't touch her . . . Galina, your shoulder is bare again .. . Stop! Stop! His shirt is unbuttoned ... His chest is all hairy! Shave it immediately. We're making a film for the laboring masses, not for sex maniacs...
...first such demonstration in 35 years. Said a Western military attache: "It was an impressive display of equipment that shows a pretty good capability in terms of manufacturing. There wasn't a piece there that was not made in China." If the review provided no stunning surprises, the closeup look at relatively advanced conventional weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles gave foreigners an opportunity to gauge China's priorities and capacities in the production of modern military hardware...
...worker--who said his name was Bob--came back a few minutes later, asking her to sign again, inside, right next to a postcard-sized closeup of her genitals...
...extreme attention was natural. No woman had ever before run for national office on the ticket of a major party, and everybody wanted a closeup look at the pioneer. All week long she seemed at ease in the spotlight. Despite a few iffy moments, Ferraro held her own with the press. With partisan audiences she was unerring: in appearance after appearance she shrewdly ingratiated herself with the various sectors of the Democratic coalition, showing a rapid-fire fluency in the kind of person-to-person political happy talk that will be required for the next 15 weeks of campaigning...
...extreme closeup, as in Argentine Publisher Jacobo Timerman's chilling book Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, blood is blood and terror is terror. Withdraw to the appropriate distance, however, and the spectacle of a society obstinately destroying itself becomes a depersonalized, absurd comedy. The author, an Argentine now living in Mexico, withdraws all the way to Olympus. There Athena and Aphrodite, no less, concern themselves with protecting the hapless members of an apolitical poetry group that meets each week in Buenos Aires. They have been denounced to the police, and a surveillance has been mounted...