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...upon the Republicans between March 10 and April 7, the date when the new campaign disclosure act became law. Thus the possibility remained that the important Republican contributors were hiding in the lacuna of a legal technicality. The 283 whose names and gifts were revealed might raise an occasional eyebrow. Among them...
Krackow believes strongly in corporate teamwork, which is an old idea in the U.S. but a relatively new concept in traditionally hierarchical German business. Though he works 12-to-14-hour days, he does not raise an eyebrow when lieutenants leave the office at 5 p.m. There are only two things that he will not tolerate: disloyalty and mediocrity. "A corporation is less likely to be ruined by a wrong decision than by creeping mediocrity," he says...
...match by splintering its chronology. His narrative spirals through the book's events in ruminative glides and turns, ending where it began, with the master's death. Commonplace images-a girl on a bridge tossing bread to carp, a long white hair in the master's eyebrow -take on a subliminal life through calm, patient repetition and minute elaboration. There is a kind of low-key daring about such writing: either it exerts a spell or it is nothing...
...rather operatic way. He favors huge, porous closeups and compositions with profiles looming large in one corner or another of the wide-screen frame. The music is another Leone trademark. In the Eastwood epics, it will be remembered, a jew's-harp twanged madly every time an eyebrow was arched. Here Leone recruits some hapless vocalist to make melodramatic noises that seem to be an imitation of a bullfrog with bronchitis...
...Days' Wonder exudes a sort of occluded Catholicism, a quality that the young Chabrol detected in the work of Hitchcock, who has been a heavy and not entirely salutary influence on him. Everything is rather uninterestingly out of control here, including Orson Welles. When Welles arches an eyebrow he undergoes such convulsions that it appears he is trying to launch a great hairy boomerang off his face and into the stratosphere...