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...accompanies a waiting-for-the-kill plot by using devices intended to induce dread, mainly through unexpected camera angles and ominous background music. These are used too early and often to be effective, and leave the impression that the camerawork, which is otherwise very good, was done by a dwarf...
...diagramed what Velásquez left represented, sculpted out space that Velásquez implied. Velásquez himself has been erected into a towering, plastic figure on the left. The watcher in the doorway has been raised in ominous emphasis by reducing him to black silhouette. The dwarf has become a Charlie Brown cartoon, and the mastiff transformed into Picasso's own dachshund. The mysterious, airy space of the room's depth has been chopped into emphatic fragments by the invented windows on the right...
...miles northwest of Edmonton, Alta., it roared in with a fabulous open-flow potential of 1.5 billion cu. ft. per day. Its closest competitor is a 500 million-cu.-ft. well owned by Phillips Petroleum Co. in Pecos County, Texas, and the nearest thing Canada has seen is a dwarf by comparison: a British American well with a flow of 280 million...
...Giant & the Dwarf. Annoyed and perhaps surprised by the outcry, Khrushchev & Co. had nonetheless calculatedly brought it on themselves, and with an internal purpose in mind: restoring iron discipline within the Soviet empire. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito last week found himself all but excommunicated by his erstwhile pals in Peking. Tito, snarled Peking's People's Daily, spoke with "the voice of a traitor," and his criticisms of Communist China (TIME, June 30) were those of "a dwarf kneeling in the mud and trying . . . to spit at a giant standing on a lofty mountain...
...brutally beautiful French novel about Indo-China on which this film is based. "They were a kind of calamity . . . They came each year, by periodical tides, by crops. They were everywhere, perched in the trees, on the backs of buffaloes . . . in the mud, looking for the dwarf crabs of the rice fields, [and] they were always followed by packs of stray dogs, whose . . . main nourishment was their excrement . . . They died in such numbers that they were no longer mourned . . . They simply returned to the earth like wild mangoes falling. They died of cholera . . . Some drowned in the river. Others died...