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...McCabe and Mrs. Miller. On location in the wilds of British Columbia, Altman had the entire cast work on constructing the set--a whole town at the edge of the late frontier--to bring the cast together. He put objects in drawers that would never be opened to heighten the actors' sense of authenticity. He has used a similar care in the choice of his actors: many of those in Thieves are non-professionals. These include the producer's wife, and star Shelley Duvall, who plays Bowie's girlfriend Keechie. Duvall is a gentle-looking woman with large eyes, large...
...general, though, Simon's show of purpose, vigor and decisiveness has won almost unanimous praise. The energy czar has moved quite deliberately to heighten his take-charge impression by running an open shop, which is remarkable in an Administration noted for its secrecy. By now, Simon must have set some sort of record for appearances on TV. He comes across to some watchers as self-assured and purposeful, to others as arrogant. Newsmen are delighted by his habit of returning their calls, no matter how late he has been working, and insisting that his staff do the same. Right...
...most people sex is a very private, discreet, personal experience. Not many of them would think of patterning their sex lives on the activities of the men and women in the two magazines. If women do need Viva and Playgirl, it is to bolster their sexual fantasies. Fantasy may heighten sex by making it more than a physical act. In that case, Playgirl and Viva are productive if they heighten a woman's enjoyment of her man's and her own sexual involvement. But most people's enjoyment of each other is created by mutual feelings of love and respect...
...eased out Soviet influence in the region whose people--Moslem Uighurs, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Mongols and Russians--were more closely tied ethnically with the Soviet Union than with China. In the years 1958-59 the Chinese met with severe unrest in Sinkiang, leading the regime to assert its need to "heighten Marxist-Leninist thinking and awareness and completely overcome local nationalistic ideas." During the sixties, the Chinese repeatedly encountered revolts by guerilla organizations in both Sinkiang and Tibet, and there have been numerous but univerified reports of concentration camps in Sinkiang accommodating captured revolutionaries...
...fact that he is printing white on blue rather than the more usual blue on white. But, by our own time, photographers have turned this novelty into expressionistic form. Andrea Jennison, in her "Suburban Surrender" series (1973) contrasts the blue with added tones of red, green and orange that heighten the visual impact of her works. And Judy Jacobs pays homage to the use of white line on blue. She moves her background to cloth, and the texture of her canvas or gauze is visualized in the contrast of her line...