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...meet one logical, overriding need: to preserve the deterrent military-political power that has kept the cold war cold, built a military foundation for West European prosperity. The new threat: Sputnik and the Soviet experimental intercontinental ballistic missile. The new military response: deployment of intermediate-range ballistic missiles in closeup NATO bases around the Russian heartland...
...half-dozen pictures that few people have seen. Only two have been generally noticed in the U.S. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) was considered by most critics "an experimental film," but it has since served serious moviemakers as an invaluable primer on the uses of the closeup. Day of Wrath (1948) was a tenebrous expatiation on the theme of Jeremiah ("The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked"), and it roused Broadway critics to such a passion of love-hate that it ran for 13 weeks at a Manhattan art theater...
...uniform "to the fullest extent," fills a disproportionate amount of screen time, not to mention space. But the show is saved at almost every turn by Actor Grant. At 53, he is perhaps the only one of the older generation of movie heroes who can still walk into a closeup without pinning up his jowls. And even a bad line somehow seems great when Gary pays it out as smooth as tooth paste. As for a good line, he can drop it like a radioactive potato. Item: "What is your ex-wife calling you about?" asks Actress Parker. And Grant...
...ambush with real French victims. "We refused, of course, on moral grounds," Kearns told the TV audience. CBS made up for that gap by opening Algeria Aflame like a bombshell with a memorable year-old sequence of an actual ambush. What emerged from the new footage was a sympathetic closeup of intense, fiery-eyed Algerians who endure their wounded, their bombed-out meshtas, the homelessness of their families, to fight for their cause as tough, well-trained soldiers. Among them: a sloe-eyed, pretty, 21-year-old girl, and such veterans as a captain who won a dozen decorations...
...makes her interesting is the combination of her classical beauty with a sensual, lush quality." Says Director George (The Eddy Duchin Story) Sidney: "She has the fa cade and the equipment of a bitch in the long shot. Yet when you look in Kim's eyes in a closeup, she's like a baby. There is a fire with the sweetness, a bitchery with the virtue, all in one package...