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Avedon is possessed of a lens that is a subtler, cruder instrument of distortion than any caricaturist's pencil. Washington Hostess Perle Mesta appears whiskered and wattle-throated; Dwight Eisenhower looks like his own corpse simple people getting married at City Hall look bloated, ugly, foolish; Adlai Stevenson looks...
JAKE: Helene's hands, care-worn like the face of my mother, tenderly carressed by Sacha Vierny's lens...how can I forget them, ever? Whenever I hurt someone I will look at her hands and see Helene's hands receding down the darkling corridors of my memory.
JUDY: That's quite all right. And surely you mean lenses, Jake. What a superb melange de style Vierney achieves utilizing quasi-fish-eye, extreme wide angle, kaleidoscopic, wide angle standard focal length, and long lens shots. Shots that delicately commingle the chameleon pastel shades and confirm Resnais's mastery of montage and complete command of mise en scene. Surely, one of the great auteurs...
Along with the evidence, purportedly extracted from the 26 notebooks, came snickers. The Western agents, charged the Soviet press, were so "amateurish" and "clumsy" that the whole train knew they were spies-despite their rather incredible claim that they were Olympic athletes bound for Tokyo. They never left their compartment...
When he recently completed a 15-month rap at Michigan's Jackson state prison, Benjamin Ritholz boasted the rare distinction of having paid for paying his debt to society. Reason: Lens-maker Ritholz, who was convicted of trying to bribe the state optometry board, is a millionaire. And under...