Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another blessing is Doug Slocombe's quick eye for creating atmosphere with his roving camera. In a single shot, he shows the bustle of inner city Philadelphia, then contrasts the street with an aerial view of the majestic abbey. His close-ups of the stained-glass windows in the abbey's chapel are particularly delicate. And his lens remains clean throughout; the scandal unfolds crisply through film, without the usual smokey scenes of conspiracy...
...thinking especially of Orson Welles and Citizen Kane and John Huston, who produced this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimantalist" soft spots of Rick in Casablanca or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in Petrified Forest. Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this...
...COSTUMES are colorful, and the makeup is original and eye-catching (particularly for Oberon). The sparse set, consisting of a parallelepiped with a net draped diagonally through it, is used imaginatively throughout the play...
...believes, is a "cancer in the British press eating away at its guts." This cancer causes the more strident popular journals to attack pillars of the British system from the monarchy to the moderate politicians of both right and left. Goldsmith himself was attacked last year when Private Eye, a popular satirical weekly, suggested that he was obstructing a police investigation into the disappearance of the Earl of Lucan, accused of murdering his children's nanny. Private Eye has since conceded that its story was inaccurate, but Goldsmith is still suing for criminal libel, which could land the editor...
...critics, notably many corporate executives, see it as a monster in the making. Any company that needs government approval to raise or lower a price, change an interstate route, get an export license or win permission to market a drug, could be subject to ACA'S watchful eye. So too would companies that have to meet Government safety standards for their products. Complains General Foods Chairman James Ferguson, an outspoken critic: "The cost of virtually nonstop litigation would increase enormously the expense of running any business and the price of goods to the consumer, while the costs...