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Welles's Othello has something for everybody and should not be missed. The humanitarian can test his English 124 training by trying to detect the cuts. The dramatist cannot fail to be impressed by Welles's from the exhibit of camera technique. And the average Brattle goer is sure to enjoy an evocative chase in--guess where--the Cyprus sewers...
...swelling rapidly into dangerous controversies. U.S. Representative to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson wasted no time in pointing out that the only scientific experiment now scheduled to involve both the U.S. and South Africa has nothing to do with bombs: it will be a delicate and determined effort to detect some elusive particles of matter...
...depth of the gold mine, but the entire universe is believed to be swarming with neutrinos that will be deterred not at all by two miles of rock. Some of them are believed to carry unusual amounts of energy, and these fat neutrinos should be easier to detect than leaner ones...
...build suspense, Kurosawa keeps actors moving. The screen is alive with motion, choreographically precise and caught by his artist's eye in scene after scene of stunning composition. In one hypnotic interlude, the kidnaper, watching the house by longe-range telescope to detect police interference, telephones and orders the Gondos to open their curtains-and they stand helpless, gaping through the vastness of their picture window into the greater vastness of the city below. "O.K., I can see you now," says their tormentor. Later, Gondo and a squad of detectives board a train, and a brilliantly mounted ransom scene...
...Charlestown, the Cattons detect "a faint but undeniable whiff of decay" under the city's genteel tradition." Brierfield, Davis's estate, is said to have been in the Scarlett O'Hara tradition, and governors' messages are said to have "popped and rattled across the Gulf states like a chain of firecrackers." The authors also claim that "no two men in all the nation held views about the [Kansas-Nebraska] crisis with firmer conviction than did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis." And to everyone but the reader, "it was obvious, from almost every angle, that the [1860 Republican] party...