Word: curious
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...known spies" (precisely what is a "known spy"?); for closure of CIA files to Freedom of Information Act inquiries without need for justification by issues of "national secuity;" and for permitting a wide range of "intelligence operations" stopping short, it seems, only of assassination. This last curious phrase raises several interesting general questions: is there a difference between legitimate intelligence-gathering and "intelligence operations?" And, to what extent can recent foreign policy debacles be attributed to "intelligence failures"; that is, to problems of incompleteness or inaccuracy of data...
...have to squint hard to find inconsistencies like these, though, and aurally if not physically the music works. More curious and ironic is the presence onstage of Robert Brustein, ART's director and a philosopher of the theater in his own right, as Theseus, that unrepentant skeptic with no faith in drama or poetry. This, after all, is the character who delivers the famous speech lumping lovers, poets and madmen together as creatures of imagination, flighty and deluded...
...British bonded warehouse company to store and label bottles of French wine shipped in from The Netherlands. Eutron ran up a $22,000 bill with the warehouse, which in turn seized 3,000 bottles of wine still awaiting export to the U.S. Meanwhile a British customs officer got curious about the special green certificates of origin that under European Community rules must accompany quality wines. On the Dutch seal on one form, he noticed, the likeness of Queen Juliana was facing in the wrong direction: it proved to be an impression made by using a Dutch coin. A wine expert...
Salesmen at Boston's Jordan Marsh department store just before Christmas 1948 proudly touted the new cameras with the slogan "Snap it, see it." As curious customers watched in fascination, Polaroid pictures almost miraculously developed right inside the camera in one minute. Photography's professionals dismissed it as a gimmick, but Edwin Land had just founded the instant-photo industry, now a $1.2 billion business. Last week Land, 70, one of the premier tinkerers of American history, announced his retirement as chief executive officer of Polaroid amid a whirlwind of controversy. Land's departure will...
That seems to cover everything significant about student life in the U.S. during the very wonderful late '60s. But the very completeness of the survey offered by A Small Circle of Friends afflicts it with a curious self-consciousness. It comes to seem less a movie than a picture history of an era-one of those tomes that offer a garble of familiar images held together by a pseudohistorical text. Books of that sort make almost no demands. One leafs idly through them, hoping the telephone will soon ring. A film, unfortunately, demands attention, and here one fixes...