Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exteriors are bleached-out process shots taken on different days with no attempt made to reconcile light changes. When a little action is necessary, Polanski drags out the hand-held camera for some shaky realism (catch Hitchcock filming violence with a hand-held camera!); and repeatedly, Polanski substitutes tight close-ups for style. If nothing else, Rosemary's Baby is ugly--aesthetically derelict, the groping of a bombed-out mind...
...birthday festivities in Bonn's Beethoven Hall, former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard recalled his crucial 1948 decision to close West Germany's banks and deal no more in grotesquely inflated reichsmarks (1,000 for a carton of U.S. cigarettes). As economic boss of occupied West Germany, Erhard courageously exchanged only 6½ Deutsche marks for every 100 of the old marks, thus wiping out the cash savings of most of his countrymen for the second time in a generation.* A laissez-faire economist, Erhard followed currency reform by abolishing price controls and rationing. "The only chance I had," said...
...summer or early fall, even Easterners will soon learn that it refers to the big and already well-known Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. Like other U.S. railroads, the fourth largest, Santa Fe, has become increasingly active in nonrail businesses, now receives about $17 million annually, or close to 30% of its total earnings, from these other activities...
...your business," he once advised, "you should open another business." As his enterprise grew, Ahmanson more and more tended to run it from a distance. After doctors recommended thrice-daily swims when he suffered a heart attack eleven years ago, Ahmanson kept office hours close to the pool at his Tudor mansion in suburban Los Angeles. Over the past decade, he visited his Beverly Hills headquarters no more than a dozen times...
...play by John Osborne, Inadmissible Evidence has made a triumphant transition to the screen, with all of its claustrophobic intensity, venom and quinine-bitter laughter intact. In his scenario for the film, Osborne has speeded the tempo by slimming the monologues; Director Anthony Page has gained added power by close-ups that pore over a human face desolate in its frustrations. As on the London and New York stage, the demanding role of Maitland is enacted by Nicol Williamson, a player of explosive passion. Williamson does not merely perform; he lays his life on the line. His eyes are wells...