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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acting under a provision of the 1965 voting rights law, the Justice Depart ment quickly entered the case, asked Federal District Court Judge Daniel Thomas to order the ballots counted...
Jean-Lue Godard's A Woman is a Woman, the first film in the aniversary series, seems highly atypical of the New Wave at first sight. The use of color and cinemascope depart from the amateurish, low-budget style of Breathless, and the large number of interior shots violates the New Wave maxim of "on-the-street" shooting. But these departures only point out the most important tendency in the New Wave movement: the willingness to experiment with any style, any technique, or any location. Godard uses his camera with the same abandon that characterized Breathless, and in his hands...
...cane and looking all of his 81 years, Truman, in a speech read for him, said of the years since he began to fight the cold war: "It all seems to have been in vain. Memories are short and appetites for power and glory are insatiable. Old tyrants depart. New ones take their place. Old allies become the foe. The recent enemy becomes the friend. It's all very baffling and trying...
...DRUMMING-UP-BUSINESS DEPART MENT. "We do no soliciting," insisted the Colonel. But "quoting some canon of ethics," he declared that "it is not improper to call on a person when warranted by personal relations." As a result, the D.U.B.D. taught firm members "the need for knowing as many people as possible, particularly hospital managers, cashiers, nurses, interns, residents, practicing physicians, policemen, preachers and fortune tellers...
...French maitres d'hotel and chefs, who demanded and got a month's salary for what ended up being five days' work. Imported caviar, champagne, whisky and steak poured into the cavernous complex even as delegates and foreign ministers from 45 nations made their reservations to depart. The club's living quarters were not even filled; most diplomats preferred the bustling Aletti Hotel downtown, or the St. George, where the frug and the monkey were nightly attractions. By midweek everyone was gone. With the fading of jet contrails heading toward Bangkok and Baghdad, Accra and Ankara...