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...April, Harvard University Press will bring out the fifth book of the Film Studies Series--Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, by William D. Rothman, associate professor of Visual and Environmental Studies...
...Chandler could laugh when S. J. Perelman parodied Marlowe's hard-boiled approach in "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer": "Her eyes narrowed. I shifted my 200 Ibs. slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched it burn down." He combats a compulsion for the bottle, wrangles with Alfred Hitchcock over the script of Strangers on a Train ("If you wanted something written in skim milk, why on earth did you bother to come to me?"), watches Cissy die by agonizing degrees, attempts suicide, and each time revives to go a few more rounds with a new book. In between...
Enzo Montemurro, a fullback from Rexford, Ontario, stumbled off the field and collapsed during the game and soon lost consciousness. He remained in critical condition at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover...
...autopsy revealed the cause of death to be an acute subdural hematoma, or blood clot, resulting from a head injury suffered sometime during the game, Patricia B. Elder, spokesman for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, said yesterday. A blood clot in the brain usually causes physical collapse within "minutes or hours," she added...
Christened the International Style by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, it was taken up by the Museum of Modern Art, shed its "real" aim (which was to house workers in Utopian communities) and became the house style of American capitalism. Soon the land was covered with glass boxes erected in helpless middle-class submission to intellectual fashion. Nobody liked these buildings then. Nobody wants them now. From sea to shining Seagram, it was a big waste of time. But the legacy is permanent, because the International Style created "Compounds," an entrenched dictatorship over taste centered in the Eastern universities...