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...darkness or clouds, the crew figures out how the Shoran instruments should read when the airplane reaches the bomb release point just short of the target. They set some dials. A computing mechanism that takes account of wind drift, altitude, etc. helps them reach the selected point. A red light flashes, and the bombardier drops the bombs...
...Twenty-five years ago, a good many U.S. intellectuals were buying one-way tickets to Paris to escape their countrymen's "cultural Philistinism." After a while, with thinning hair and dampened enthusiasm, they began to drift home. One U.S. highbrow who refused to join the trek to Paris was Gerald Sykes. Stay home and work for what you want, he told his fellow intellectuals; in his tidy novel, The Nice American, he is still offering pretty much the same advice...
Last June General MacArthur ordered Nozaka, Shiga and 22 other Red leaders expelled from political life. They went underground. Leaderless, the party rank & file began to drift away...
...difficult act to follow. But the Spanier band was good because its members play well together, with well-integrated styles. Kaminsky seems to be a victim of the New York Condon's-Nick's melting pot of cacophony--where musicians of totally different schools of dixieland drift together for too brief a time to achieve the cohesiveness of harmony that makes for a great combination...
...lookingglass, carries him into an enigmatic dream world that blends myth, realistic thriller and fantasy. Laureled in Venice, praised and damned in Paris and London, it is a film to frustrate any moviegoer who demands a logical explanation of what he is looking at. For those willing to drift with Cocteau's reverie, catching what wisps of meaning they can, the movie is an interesting experience...