Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alfred Hitchcock, one feels, might have pulled it off, but Director Michael Anderson fails shabbily. An instance is the simple and necessary business of withholding information. When Hitchcock wants to hide the face of a stalking murderer from the camera, he invents some reason-perhaps a half-drawn shade in a rear window. Anderson merely points his lens toward anonymous trouser legs and fires away. No matter how hard the cellists play, this is cheating...
...served until his impeachment on charges of misusing public funds. After the Texas legislature stripped him of the right to run for public office again, Farmer Jim decided to run his wife instead. In the campaign. Jim Ferguson did most of the talking, made no effort to hide his scheme to govern Texas in his wife's name. The corn pone slogans reeked of duality: "Me for Ma," and "Two Governors for the price...
...drama-and occasionally a melodrama-of incomprehension. The judges who try Dominique refuse to believe that she shot her man in blind despair growing out of her love for him, not premeditated spite. They listen stolidly when her defense attorney tells them that she had been treated heartlessly, hide flickering lust with censoriousness when the prosecution relentlessly details her love affairs. Hopelessly, she lashes at the judges: they are old men in silly robes, they cannot understand, they are dead. That night she commits suicide, and the next morning the judges stare at one another in a final communion...
...know of no law that forbids one to hide theology books in divans...
...have been able to do since the invasion is hide and whisper," said Pepe. Castro boasts that he has 500,000 of Cuba's 6,000,000 people spying for him. On the 15-mile drive from his home to Havana, Pepe had to run ten checks: "Each time, they open the hood and look for guns in the engine. They look under the seat, in the trunk, everywhere. They take pictures, too," said Pepe, "of people going to church, going into certain offices, even just on the street." Recently, a wounded saboteur was making his confession...