Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dukes appointed trial-by-combat, Richard appears high on Ed Wittstein's imposing baldaquinesque two-story structure, trimmed with heavily bordered stained-glass panels reminiscent of Raoul Dufy. The King is now clad in gold with white boots, and there are seven colorful flagbearers in position. It is a fine touch in this highly ritualistic play that the King and the Lord Marshal (penetratingly projected by Robert Lumish) actually sing some of their lines here as though running through a formulaic and time-honored chant. An onstage sidedrummer accompanies the King's staircase descent and ascent...
...CARABINIERS. Blending some documentary footage with his own, not altogether somber view of war, Director Jean-Luc Godard comes up with an artful portrait of man in combat that may be his best film since Breathless...
Getting Serious. The U.S., of course, has its own chronic payments problem, and it has long been painfully obvious that the Johnson Administration's proposed 10% tax surcharge was the best way to combat it. Fast approaching adjournment for the summer, Congress is likely to pass the surcharge within the next two weeks-17 months after the President first urgently proposed it. The tax should show the rest of the world that the U.S. really is serious about cleaning up its financial household. And that in itself should increase confidence in the dollar...
Heavy-handed amateur ironies prevail. A Polaroid commercial is doctored to show a still of a dead soldier; a Band-Aid commercial is spliced into combat scenes. Only bits and pieces of conversation with Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro give anything like a sense of ideological actuality. The rest has the secondhand look of a film that has been petulantly edited, as the title implies, far from Viet...
...ingots as well as a number of fabricated products. A hefty settlement in the current negotiations, similarly, is almost sure to result in steel price increases, which will make it even more difficult for U.S. steelmakers to compete against foreign companies. The union contends that the best way to combat the problem is by imposing quotas on steel imports, but that solution, obviously favored by the companies as well, runs afoul of the Administration's efforts to lower trade barriers...