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...Married Woman is the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who shook up the movie world five years ago with Breathless, and has made eight far-out features since−notably My Life to Live and A Woman Is a Woman. In this, as in most of his other films, he exhibits an irresistible weakness for obtrusion, visual puns, inside jokes and all sorts of self-indulgent photographic whimsies, such as irrelevantly shooting a sequence at a 90° tilt...
...ready to sign during a White House "water emergency conference" to survey the immediate and long-term problems of the drought-stricken Northeast Addressing Governors, mayors and others from the region, Johnson said that the nation has "lingered too long under the impression that desalting sea water is a far-out and a far-distant goal," announced his determination "to make the great breakthrough before 1970." The Administration's target is to build plants, within five years, with a daily capacity of 100 million gallons each for the nation's biggest cities, as well as 10 million-gallon...
...Most of the ones who fill out polls seem to like the rep system like the shows--the ones who write little notes to us all want to see us do something far-out, like Giradoux, or Ugo Betti...
Cigar with Boots. While Vogue and Harper's Bazaar are still the sophisticated pacesetters in the adult fashion world, offering far-out styles at far-out prices, the three younger magazines appeal to an ever-growing group of less well heeled but just as clothes-conscious younger women. Today the trio of magazines is fatter than ever and report record advertising revenues...
Ships on Air. From such far-out ideas come down-to-earth breakthroughs. It was only ten years ago that Christopher Cockerell, an English engineer, reversed the suction on a household vacuum cleaner, stuck the hose through the bottom of an open-ended tin can, watched the can float-and got the idea for the hovercraft. Today's hovercraft are amphibious vessels that glide across land or sea a few inches above the surface, supported on jets of air around the perimeter of the hull. Two weeks ago, Swedish Lloyd and the Swedish American lines signed a deal...