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Some cineastes have problems dealing with Altman's distinctive technique of mixing several reels of simultaneously spoken dialogue together, a trademark that captures the actual quality of everyday conversation far better than any previous method used. The dialogue often sounds garbled however, a built-in hazard that has dismayed actors as well as viewers (e.g. Warren Beatty's post-production grumblings about the sound in McCabe & Mrs. Miller). When I first screened Welcome, I listened closely for this technique and failed to notice it. Rudolph subsequently told me that the method in fact was used; if true, then...
Near Pikeville, a small coal center along the Big Sandy, people endured the rain and the resulting flood. Then a fire, touched off by leaking gasoline, destroyed the town library, a telephone-company building and a house. Finally, it snowed. In aptly named Hazard, Ky., Charlie Hammonds, a gas-station operator, managed to take calamity in stride. His reason: "This is the 26th time I've been flooded since I came here in 1957." At Jack's Union 76 Service Station near Sneedville, Tenn. (pop. 1,000). Owner Jack Stapleton even found cause for cheer, though the Clinch...
Fitzgibbons also birdied the par five 14th with a salvo of four flawless shots. He cleared the water hazard that guards the 14th green on his second shot, a 4-iron he caught flush, but the ball kicked off the slope of the green and he needed a chip and a putt for his birdie...
Seduction under the dining room table with a lighted candle on the floor promotes only one thing: a fire hazard...
...Russian naval authorities have formed a joint committee aimed at trying to control the chicken game, but it remains a hazard of the sea. Navy officials, who released pictures of the Voge incident last week to publicize the continuing gamesmanship in the Med, reckon that the Soviet skipper did not mean to hit the Voge but simply miscalculated. Said one officer: "He just goofed, that...