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Admittedly, a custard-pie plot. What keeps Big Boy grown up is some of the wackiest free-association camerawork since Richard Lester made the Beatles work A Hard Day's Night. When Bernard, wandering around town, sees the initials W.C. above a public toilet, his mind expands them into Warring Countries-whereupon the screen flashcuts to newsreels of battle; when the words change to Welcome Communists, Russians pass in review. A scrawl in the subway, "Niggers Go Home," reminds him of My Heart's in the Highlands; bigotry is changed to beauty as the Scottish hills abruptly fill...
Admittedly, a custard-pie plot. What keeps Big Boy grown up is some of the wackiest free-association camerawork since Richard Lester made the Beatles work A Hard Day's Night. When Bernard, wandering around town, sees the initials W.C. above a public toilet, his mind expands them into Warring Countries - whereupon the screen flashcuts to newsreels of battle; when the words change to Welcome Communists, Russians pass in review. A scrawl in the subway, "Niggers Go Home," reminds him of My Heart's in the Highlands; bigotry is changed to beauty as the Scottish hills abruptly fill...
...lately some very funny films have carried the conscious violation of these principles over into films with actors. Morgan, 1000 Clowns, and all of Richard Lester's stuff, particularly Help!, have been training our eyes to new conventions, all logical extensions of the conventions implied by any cutting (as opposed to the conventions implied by tracking, the moving camera). Perhaps those of us heading for our dozenth look at the Beatles are becoming prepared to recognize such conventions in serious film; this would entail learning to "summarize" the emotion latent in a shot more hastily than we normally do, without...
Unfolding a crumpled sheet of yellow legal paper, Lester Garfield Maddox reedily intoned: "My heart is full. I am humbled and honored by the decision of this august body." Thus, 63 days after narrowly losing (450,626 to 453,665) Georgia's gubernatorial election to Republican Congressman Howard ("Bo") Callaway, did onetime Restaurateur Maddox acknowledge the state legislature's decision to seat him anyway...
...present grant is for a two year period. The program is expected to run from eight to ten years, Lester E. Gordon, Deputy Director of the Development Advisory Service of the Center for International Affairs, said yesterday. He did not anticipate any difficulties in refunding the program...