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...conceived, the story has dramatic force and psychological acuity. As realized, the film shows a distressing tendency to candy its corpses, and the climax is a mere placebo. Hayes's scene writing is often crude, and Phil (The Secret Way) Karlson's direction is sometimes downright amateur. He repeatedly misplaces his camera and clumsily misdirects his actors. He cannot rattle Actor March, who after a career of 33 years and 65 films stands almost without rival as a creative cinemactor. But the director thoroughly demoralizes Actor Gazzara-at best a humorless performer, he seems in this role...
...last year. When an infra-red beam is aimed at the reflector from outdoors, it acts as a microphone. Alternatively, but less reliably, the infra-red beam can be trained on any imperceptibly oscillating object, such as a metal lampshade or empty highball glass, that can act as a crude reflector for conversation...
...letter to the poet is curious on three counts. With its evocation of the "seething mass" of America and its "measureless crudity," it gives a prose version of his poetic vision. As such, its effect was only to scare off a poetic grandee, and it showed a naively crude Marxist notion of culture as a "superstructure." The combination of "wealthy incentive, no limit to food, land, money, work, opportunity, smart and industrious citizens" would surely some day be followed by "great ideas-religion, poets, literature." Such was Whitman's wobbly esthetic, which he was to share with the leading...
...which deserved it. But by splitting Middlesex, the G.O.P. saved both Fifth District Republican Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. and Third District Republican James C. Auchincloss, who had shared not only Middlesex but also the inevitable danger of being defeated by its growing Democratic strength. More often, reapportionment is crude. North Carolina Democrats, obliged to cut twelve districts to eleven, worked a dachshund-shaped gerrymander (a system of redistricting named after Elbridge Gerry, who, as Governor of Massachusetts in 1812, designed a legislative district in the shape of a salamander) in the Piedmont area designed to chew up lone Republican Charles Jonas...
Once Lasch approves, Mauldin works up half a dozen crude, matchbook-sized "spots"-samples that vary widely in composition and approach. These spots play an important role in giving his idea different settings: "You've got to be suspicious if anything satisfies you right off." After a quick lunch, Mauldin grids his drawingboard work area into nine squares and begins drafting the cartoon, first in pencil and then in ink. A stickler for just the right detail, he frequently consults his favorite reference, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, or poses before a Polaroid Land camera (with a self-tripping shutter...