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...Focal Point. None of these problems invalidates the French theory. Film has all but replaced the novel as the chief topic of cultural talk on the campus and at many cocktail parties. Audiences as well as critics need someone to praise or blame for the total product. Given that need-and his new intellectual credentials-the director has become the focal point of film making. Henry Hathaway (True Grit), Howard Hawks (Red River) and John Ford (Cheyenne Autumn) have been reappraised as the prime movers of the west ern. Alfred Hitchcock has been called an eminent psychologist for his shrewd...
...workers, often little better off than he was at the time of the loads' tribulations in Depression-era California. In 1969, the field worker is more likely to be a Chicano-a Mexican-American-than an Okie. And the grapes of Steinbeck's title are at the focal point of one of the decade's longest and most wrathful U.S. labor disputes...
EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Animated versions of five short plays are the focal point of a program on the work of English Playwright Harold Pinter. Voices for "The Pinter People" are done by Donald Pleasence, Pinter, his wife Vivien Merchant, Richard Briers, Kathleen Harrison and Dandy Nichols...
...carrying. Back in his plane's cargo compartment, attired in green Army fatigues, 45 Americans-businessmen and journalists-slumped wearily in bucket seats after a fact-finding trip into Viet Nam's war-riddled countryside. For all hands, the visit to Viet Nam was the focal point of TIME'S current News Tour of Asia...
...European Shoe," for example, might be considered a parody of Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." The shoe, like the blackbird, incongruously becomes the focal point for all the varieties of life...