Word: extract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the interrogation, Fonda portrays Bottomley as a subtle mixture of priest and detective, probing DeSalvo to extract the confession that he wants. Unfortunately, the finesse in the interrogation ends there. The camera cuts in for overly searching closeups of Curtis, whose baggy faces droops a millimeter or two as he finally coughs up the secrets of his "other self." To let even the dullest know what's happening, a hand-held camera stumbles behind the strangler re-enacting--in the psychic presence of Bottomley--one of his slayings. A few multiple image projections here, as throughout the film, serve...
Decisive Element. The ultimate decision was obviously up to Lyndon Johnson, who has never stopped trying to extract from Hanoi the assurances of the mutual de-escalation that he had al ways demanded. Given China's heavy pressure on North Viet Nam not to make any overt agreement with the U.S., it seemed doubtful that such assurances would be forthcoming. Hanoi might also have reasoned that the closer the U.S. election drew, the more willing Johnson would be to give ground. On the other hand, the North Vietnamese might prefer to deal with L.B.J. -a known, if occasionally inscrutable...
Doctors were proud when they devised ways of using magnets to extract iron and steel objects from patients-usually nails and safety pins from children's gullets or stomachs. Now they are carrying the idea much farther by inserting magnets to get at hitherto inaccessible parts of the human body...
...rather than appending a list of the remainder of this fine cast and slurring them with indistinct praise, I shall recommend that you extract their names from the program and their merits from the stage...
...handed me a printed list of drugs, kept in a desk drawer in Avatar's Rutland St. office in Roxbury. The drug list, ranging from "caapi, extract of banisteria caapi or seeds of wild rue," to sominex, had only LSD, marijuana, hashish, mescaline, and psilocybin marked as useful...