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...Raymond Vanderhook, Indiana's director of communicable-disease control, issued forthright prescriptions: "Put your head in water at 128°-130° Fahrenheit. This will kill both nits and lice in three minutes. Or use a hair dryer so the heat is strong enough to cause a tingling of the scalp for five minutes." For victims who prefer not to cook their brains there are over-the-counter shampoos that may help and a highly effective prescription emulsion called Kwell. When classes resume, school nurses will examine the heads of all the pupils and allow only those with...
BAKER LIBRARY, Fahrenheit 451 by Francois Truffaut, with Julie Christie and Oscar Werner, Hotdogger at Vail by Bruce Brown, Nov. 30, Dec. 1,2, at 8, $1 EMERSON 105, Storm Over the Yangtze River, Mandarin film with English and Chinese subtitles...
McGrath also said yesterday that he considers the proposed plant's emergency core cooling system inadequate. The cooling system, he says, would go into operation when the plant's nuclear reactor reached 2300 degrees Fahrenheit, but the reactor would start to melt at 1700 degrees...
...about film making or incidents that had happened in the past on his own sets. One of the many problems that plague the production of Meet Pamela-an insurance company balks at backing a skittish leading lady-came from a similar wrangle over Julie Christie when Truffaut was preparing Fahrenheit 451. A scene of a cat lapping milk off a breakfast tray, simple in conception but tortuous in execution because of a recalcitrant feline, had its origins in a similar sequence in The Soft Skin. The prototype of Truffaut's assistant in the picture is his real-life assistant...
AUTEUR THEORIES OF film have always been closely linked to a study of the expressive self, and for Truffaut the Doinel films, The Wild Child, with its version of natural man, and Fahrenheit 451, a view of the individual in a repressive dystopia, are all tied to this theme. Now he has made what seems to be seem kind of auteur ultimate: a film where the director is himself the individual studied. Comparisons with Fellini's 8 1/2 are hard to avoid, and they are not to the advantage of Truffaut's film. Truffaut has even borrowed Fellini's peculiar...