Word: inch-by-inch
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REPULSION. In London, gentlemen callers seldom survive their yen for a deadly blonde psychopath (Catherine Deneuve) whose inch-by-inch descent into madness is unreeled with monstrous art by Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water...
...crisis point is reached when the lovers leave for a holiday in Italy, abandoning the sexually repressed girl to her fantasies. And never has the inch-by-inch descent into total madness been more startlingly recreated on film. Slowly, Polanski assembles the fragments of a nightmare mosaic. A man's undershirt, a razor and a skinned rabbit on a platter become objects of dread. An oppressive silence is broken only by the buzzing of flies, dripping water, a ticking clock. Rooms change shape, the mere flip of a light switch creates fissures in the walls, a phantom...
...finely worded doctrines, charters, manifestoes and reports have only served to implement Mr. K.'s inch-by-inch plan for conquest. If Mr. Kennedy doubts this, then let him inquire of Nehru how fast-and easily-a border can disappear...
...conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations, two newspapers and four radio stations agreed to go along, arid next day all of them announced: "Springfield's police will begin an inch-by-inch search of the murder scene at 2 p.m. tomorrow, looking for the murder weapon...
Shifting Pressure. Even as the U.S. enacted the doctrine, the U.S. and the U.N. were pressing the step-by-step, inch-by-inch progress toward easement of the Middle East's internal problems. One day Israel got out of Gaza and the Aqaba Gulf positions, and the blue-helmeted soldiers of the U.N. Emergency Force moved in. Another day Syria agreed to start repairing oil pipelines sabotaged during the British-French-Israeli attack on Egypt, through which Iraqi oil can be pumped to Mediterranean ports en route to Europe. Even Nasser's Egypt, still dickering...