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...made a movie on his own and now emerges as the biggest comic talent of the new school of Gallic cinema. Considering his youth and inexperience, De Broca's technique is startlingly mature. He has a frenzied flair for sight and prop gags, but he never lets them disturb the deeper humor of the scene-many moviegoers may for instance fail to observe that the painter-hero cleans his brushes on, of all things, an old black...
Those who say that this election affords little real choice are making a grave mistake. The choice is a real and important one, and for those who find much to disturb them both home and abroad, it is an obvious...
...things disturb U.S. business management more than an economic malady known as the profit squeeze, which is its way of describing lower profits on every dollar of sales-even when sales are rising. Last week managers and owners across the U.S. were voicing their concern over profit squeeze-and trying to bring it under control in ways both obvious and oblique. Second quarter 1960 profits for 721 companies surveyed by the First National City Bank of New York were 12% below the alltime-record second quarter of 1959 and down 4% in the first half as compared with...
...researcher for a national news magazine," whose religiosity is so intense that "even on the hottest August days when she wore a sleeveless dress, or a thin frock, she looked like a formally attired Girl Scout." Although she seems to bear a sign, "Catholic virgin at work. Do not disturb," Father Bowles fails to heed the warning. He accepts a winter rendezvous in a secluded park corner, and when Catherine slips to her knees in the snow, Father Bowles kisses her. Like a badge of shame her lipstick announces his fall from grace when he returns to the rectory...
Consequently one of the problems which must haunt the stage actor need not disturb the screen actor. He does not have to theatricalize his performance; there is no necessity once he has caught the reality behind his role to project it for a large audience, perhaps to make a delicate and fragile moment perceptible for thousands in New York's Winter Garden Theatre. (It was the ability to communicate throughout that cavernous theater that was one of the noteworthy excellences in Jean-Louis Barrault's production of Claudel's Christophe Colombe, an exceedingly fine-wrought work...