Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What we need is a revolutionary transformation of this society to make it fit for men to live in, nothing else. Violence? Maybe yes, maybe no. The poor people, the black people, must have the right to defend themselves, and that means with arms if necessary...
...long ago, Critic-at-Large Marya Mannes justly observed that in a world taken over by size 10 miniskirts and baby body stockings there is little left to clothe the "well-kept figure of an adult woman still loved by a man." This becoming feminine pique over fit-and much other comment on the trying 60s-has been incorporated into a slender futurist fantasy. The publisher, somewhat optimistically, asserts that it is a novel. Alas, the lady has tried to cram a statuesque symposium on life, death and manners into a minisheath of story...
...been elected president of the center, which temporarily has its headquarters in Cambridge. The major stimulus for forming the center, he said, "has been the accelerating interest of students and faculties in the film, and recognition of its role as a major art form of our time and a fit subject for the college curriculum...
...crusty, 83-year-old industrialist-publisher has refused to negotiate directly with Figaro's staff, his objectives have been clearly announced. "We favor the independence of newspapermen," says one of his underlings, "but the legal owners of Figaro are entitled to run their newspaper as they see fit, which includes the right to fire an editor-in-chief. We are living in a capitalist society, are we not?" To which the head of Figaro's journalists' association heatedly replies: "A newspaper is an enterprise of public interest, not a macaroni factory...
...done so far. They all seemed like such old salami." But as he began thinking about it, he became fascinated with the prospect of doing Faust as a grim Gothic tale in which sheer horror and grizzly humor intertwine. He decided to introduce Mephistopheles in different guises that would fit credibly into each scene. After materializing first as a cadaver, the Devil appears later as a gypsy fortuneteller, then Don Juan, then a soldier of fortune. Next, Corsaro threw out the lurid, last-act Walpurgisnacht scene, the ballet sequence that always draws laughs everywhere but in Paris. Finally, poor Marguerite...