Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1930s, the races were often rigged, and they attracted the booted whores and gaudy gangsters who gave Berlin its cynical, sinful aura. Left-wing Playwright Georg Kaiser described the Sportpalast scene in those days: "Inhibition has gone to hell. Cutaways shake. Shirts tear. Buttons pop in all directions. Differences flow away. Nakedness where there used to be disguise: passion. It's worth it-this brings profits...
...generating those thunderbolts pays $39,500 a year (plus a generous flow of hate mail), and a Justice can retire on full pay at 65. But the perquisites stop there. Except for Warren's Government Cadillac, no Justice gets a free car, house, servants or entertainment allowance; only Warren gets security protection. For novices used to worldlier ways, the monastic life is often a harsh surprise. Justice Arthur Goldberg, formerly the fire-chief U.S. Labor Secretary, is still restless. "The Secretary's phone never stops ringing," muses Goldberg. "The Justice's phone never rings-even his best...
...these and several other scenes, Director Sidney Lumet rises vigorously to the dread occasion. Item: the large animated map, on which enormous aerial battles are imagined in diagram and followed as they flow, is a magnificent narrative conceit. But during the last half of the film the illusion of reality slowly collapses into a steaming mess of socio-political platitudes ("In a nuclear war, everybody loses"). If Dr. Strangelove, as some think, made a serious subject silly, Fail Safe too often makes a serious subject soggy. The customers begin to yawn and then to smile. Indeed, in the final scene...
...takes issue with none of Humphrey's compassion but very definitely with his propensity for converting compassion into instant action. Humphrey's book virtually oscillates between sighs of concern and ambitious plans for new Federal commissions, and one needn't embrace reaction to question the wisdom of this congested flow of proposals...
...Yanks needed to do now was split the last two singles, and the champagne would flow again. Win or lose, it had been a wonderful weekend of topflight tennis...