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...Naked City. The late Mark Hellinger's big, bright portrait of New York, with the homicide squad in the foreground (TIME, March...
...road cuts across the foreground of most of Hopper's paintings. Sometimes it becomes a city street, or a railroad embankment, or a porch step, but it is there-a constant reminder of transience...
Vanity Fair is constructed like a revolving stage, where city & country and night & day whirl drunkenly together. In the foreground, a naked figure leans out of his window to peer through the gloom at Cain killing Abel in the sunlit distance...
...Both were earnest, pamphleteering tracts on the U.S. race problem. As novels, they were not very good. Below them, the fictional bestseller list was studded with historical novels of a type which has become so standardized that even their book jackets look alike: an open-bosomed beauty in the foreground, a frigate in the distance...
...lovemaking. In a short introduction to the movie, Montgomery appears at a desk and looks into the camera while explaining that he is Detective Marlowe. Thereafter, he moves (taking the audience with him) behind the camera. Kis voice takes part in the dialogue and his hand appears in the foreground occasionally to open a door or pick up a cigaret. There are also glimpses of him in mirrors. But he and the camera (and the ticket buyer) are assumed to be one. The villains aim their fists straight at the audience and the heroine fondly kisses the lens...