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...will have an opportunity to confirm his feeling in the North Atlantics, the Martini and Rossi competition and the Nationals, all to be held in coming weeks...
...that whatever's happening isn't happening in Italy and has ventured in search of an important audience. This much is true: when Antonioni waves an American flag outside the window of a soul-less real estate tycoon, he is not out to educate his audience as much as confirm their existent prejudices. A Jesus Saves sign looms briefly out poor Rod Taylor's window. Here I air a prejudice of my own. I would rather have my symbols built openly into a-film's structure (like Hitchcock's Tonight Golden Carls sign in The Lodger, or Hawks...
...this point to watch the imprecise vision of the players, is suddenly confronted with a questioning of its own perceptual powers: the deliberate half-illusion of Mark shooting a policeman. In fact, the gun isn't out of his boot when the shot is fired. Antonioni wanted to confirm that Mark would have killed the cop had someone not beat him to it: he is moral and we must not doubt the truth of Mark's denial of murder later in the picture. The timing of the shot is elusive enough to convince part of each audience (perhaps the part...
...critics of the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia protested that Washington seemed to be plunging deeper into Laos just as it was pulling back from Viet Nam-though of course the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam is incomparably larger. The Administration denied the charges, but the evidence appeared to confirm them (see box following page...
...faculty has "plenary power" in all discipline cases. It can vote to confirm the Board's decisions, change them, or take no action-which would leave the Board's decisions as they...