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Like most tough films, Shock Corridor has a core of sentimentality. Its ending, however, doesn't falter: Fuller undercuts the expected resolution with a note of quiet prolonged horror. Fuller's movies must be seen to be believed; they can't adequately be described. Shock Corridor is not often shown, and the Adams House Film society is performing a small public service in screening it. It is an extremely important film, and perhaps a great...

Author: By Samuel B. West jr., | Title: Sam Fuller's 'Shock Corridor' | 3/31/1966 | See Source »

...past ten years, the U.S. has been yelped and leaped at by more than a dozen different folk-dancing troupes from Eastern Europe, and with each successive wave it becomes increasingly difficult to separate last week's folk from this week's folk. Without fail, fear or falter, they follow in one another's folksteps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dance: Following in The Folksteps | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...member of Columbia's 1965 national championship team is back this year. If the Lions' all-Americans and all-Ivy Leaguers falter, they have a New York Invitational foil champion and an Eastern Intercollegiate runner-up to back them...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Fencers Face Columbia for Ivy Title | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...perceived, is to maintain constantly a high level of what he called "aggregate demand." To him, that meant the total of all demand in the economy?demand for consumption and for investment, for both private and public purposes. His inescapable conclusion was that, if private demand should flag and falter, then it had to be revived and stimulated by the only force strong enough to lift consumption: the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: We Are All Keynesians Now | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...pied à terre since 1952, and describe it in images that blazon the retina long after the book is closed. In "The Armadillo," for instance, she pictures the "frail, illegal fire balloons" that during Holy Week float up from Brazilian villages into the starry darkness, where they "flare and falter, wobble and toss" like fiery little moons in a mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passing Strange | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

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