Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uses the scene to illustrate his belief that there is no division between fiction and reality. Both the fictional photographer in the film and the actual movie camera are taking pictures of Anna Karina. Similarly in another scene, gangsters, slick and cool as in a detective story, appear very real when they trip over their own feet...
...squad of Secret Service men assigned under a new law providing lifetime protection to ex-Presidents arrived out in Independence, Mo., last week and got a cool hello. It's been 13 years since Harry Truman, 81, has had the Secret Service tailing him, and "I haven't been bothered much." Bess was grumbling, too. They did seem like nice boys, said she, and of course it was a "courteous gesture," but "neither one of us is very happy about it." As for their driving her around town in Government cars-why, snapped Mrs. Truman...
...Cool Poetry. "Macadam, gun-grey as a tunny's belt/Leaps from Far Rockaway to Golden Gate," is was this America on the move, ironing out its regional peculiarities and aswarm immigrant energy, that artists were now forced consider, and most of them found viewing best when equipped with foreign spectacles. While the newspaper-trained illustrators who became the ashcan school saw ugliness as a police court scene, their friend. Maurice Prendergast, went to Paris, returned to paint Manhattan's Central Park in the pure colors of a soft-hued tapestry...
...truism is that the eye can lie, but the nose knows. Cool pools in the middle of the desert turn out to be heat vapor or over-the-horizon reflections. A bartender can suddenly split into identical twins. But drop a blindfolded man into the middle of a place that whiffs of tanned calfskin, saddle soap and cordovan polish. Is he in a shoe store? Not necessarily...
...performances. Yet the acting--by Rita Tushingham as Nancy, Ray Brooks as Tolen, Michael Crawford as Colin, and Donal Donnelly as Tom--is impeccable. And the dialogue, except for a bit of repetitiousness now and then, has the sound of dead-on improvisation. It all adds up to a cool, inventive, very funny film...