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Rivette cannot rival the lush symmetry of Bertolucci's camerawork but his structure and psychological treatment make Tango, with its inconsistent plot and shallow characterization, seem even flatter by contrast. Rivette's psychology has its limits as well -- tendencies toward surrealism narrow its view, violence becomes stylized and unbelievable towards its end -- but the basic insights are sound. Sex is merely sketched in Rivette's work, but his actors have a greater sensitivity which produces a far more sensual result than Brando's mechanical and purposeless simulations...
...popularity of these characters is related to that of the golden-hearted whore. She exists to be laughed at, to please, to flatter, and she accepts the role of an inferior through self-deprecation. Make no mistake...
Acheson had his misgivings about Roosevelt. "It didn't flatter me," he later remarked, "to have the squire of Hyde Park come by and speak to me familiarly, as though I were a stable boy and I was supposed to pull my lock and say, 'Aye, aye, sir.' " That was no way for one squire to treat another. But in 1941 Acheson was invited to return to the Government-this time to the State Department. He remained for six years, then left to resume his law practice until he was appointed Secretary by Truman...
...only around for the last year of the forties, but I sometimes liked to flatter myself into pretending that I could almost imagine what that decade must have been like. They say my father looked like Jimmy Stewart then and my mother tried to wear hair like Veronica Lake. And I could almost believe it-even though my father and Jimmy Stewart have long since aged in opposite directions while my mother's face took on the lines and wrinkles by which, as a child, I had learned to identify my grandmother and great-aunt-mostly because the stories they...
Ravenous Machines. The effects of strip mining are not confined to the hidden valleys of Appalachia. The flatter the land over coal deposits, the more easily surface miners can deploy their fantastic King Kong technology. Some new power shovels can scoop up 200 tons in a single bite, then take another gulp a minute later. Even with such ravenous machines working round the clock, all 52 motors screaming, the coal will not run out for centuries. Only 4.5 billion of the nation's 108 billion tons of strippable coal have been touched...