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Come to think about it-and there is plenty of time to do so in The Drowning Pool-the traditional private-eye format does not suit movies all that well. It demands a rigid structure as the detective pursues his investigation like a mailman on his route, moving from door to door, picking up a shred of information, depositing another, occasionally having his appointed rounds interrupted by some mayhem...
...constructs the ambiguity toward wealth is temporarily resolved. Kind Hearts and Coronets, the famous British film comedy on the same theme, is in fact so moralistic that in the end nobody wins out, everyone having been clearly shown the error of his greedy ways. Nichols tampers fatally with the format by making the heiress the one who wants to give it all away, and the two men selfish dopes who don't deserve the money but apparently get it anyway. The moral simplicity of the tale is so distorted, and its punch so diluted, that we end up disgusted with...
William Lee assistant to the director of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday that the University has received format notice of the claim from the EEOC. But he added that his officer can take the action because the notice does not charge any individuals...
...format is pure TV talk show; the content is not. In one episode the genial, loose-jointed M.C. welcomes a California real estate salesman named Frank Foglio, who tells a modern version of the loaves-and-fishes miracle: his mother, with 18 mouths to feed one night, prayed over a quarter-pound of spaghetti. God multiplied it so generously that there were even leftovers...
...topics. The middle part contains feature articles, and the back is devoted to entertainment listings. One of the issue's most notable traits is its squarish, Sunday-supplement size (11 in. by 13 in.). "I predict that Rolling Stone and New York will switch to our large, stapled format," Coppola says. "I predict a trend...