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...kind of shot which shows the image that a character in the movie is seeing. A POV shot that makes us aware of its presence can easily seem ostentatious gimmickry on the part of the director, like the shot in Sundays and Cybele where Hardy Kruger holds up a cocktail glass and we see the room through it as he turns. In Ulysses Strick establishes early such an extreme convention of point-of-view narrative that nothing subsequent seems gimmickry. Stephen Daedalus (Maurice Roeves) walks on the beach as we hear his voice speaking the "Ineluctable modality of the visible...
There were the political cocktail parties where dedicated antiFascists helped crush Mussolini by ordering martinis without olives, the disenchantment of the Daily Worker reporter who rushed into his office one day yelling, "Hold everything. It's begun. The masses are storming the Amalgamated Bank." Bendiner also describes the struggle to undermine the American way of life by slipping working-class propaganda into WPA art projects. "Swarthmore College felt obliged to close up a room in which no fewer than six clenched fists were detected in a WPA mural," Bendiner recalls. "After a mild uproar the room was reopened with...
...many of Kazin's friends, radicalism was not the result of a John Winthrop-like examination of conscience, but rather a garment that for one reason or another, perhaps social or psychological, was congenial. Inconsistencies don't bother these people. "The cool-looking types I now met at cocktail parties never seemed to find it odd to express the most revolutionary opinions against the most luxurious backgrounds. It was as if they were demonstrating, more than their new principles, the detached intelligence that had made them executives in the first place. They were the harbingers of the new society...
Charles W. Dunn, Master of Quincy House, will host a cocktail party for the visitor at 5:30 p.m. An hour later, Bernstein will be whisked off to a dinner for Quincy residents, invited guests, and Arts Festival patrons. After seeing On the Town, he will spend the night at Quincy House...
...even at $500 a plate. In the trade, such affairs are often known as "blackjack" dinners, since lobbyists or trade associations for whom the Congressman has done a favor are pointedly notified and often arbitrarily assigned an allotted number of tickets. In Washington, a favorite variant is the campaign cocktail party. Says one lobbyist ruefully: "I get invited to about two every month. They are so well organized that after the first drink, they pass blank checks around. It usually costs me $100 for one drink and a cold shrimp on a toothpick...