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Chabrol realizes Why's childlike outlook in a phenomenology of sensation. The objects of Les Biches melt into the soft-colored fields on which they are placed. Though Chabrol's compositions have a lot of spatial depth. the camera penetrates the spaces before it with such fluidity that one thing is not sharply distinct from another: changes of position in space occur so smoothly and continuously that people, objects, and setting appear to merge...

Author: By Mire Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer Les Biches | 3/20/1970 | See Source »

Sour cream wouldn't melt in Jacobi's mouth, and his face looks like a bowl of stale potato salad. But he wears his troubles like epaulettes, and has he got troubles. He is the owner of a Midwest dry-cleaning establishment, and his wife has just run off with his partner who happens to be his brother. Seeking solace from his New York bachelor son Norman (Martin Huston), Jacobi arrives unannounced (if anything Jacobi does can properly be called unannounced) and finds the boy nonchalantly involved in a homosexual liaison with a friend named Garson (Walter Willison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: How to Half-Die Laughing | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...four U.S. military investigators. What they were supposed to investigate is unclear, though genuine correspondents in Saigon suspect they intended to use their press cover to probe sources of news leaks, the operation of the black market and the scope of antiwar movements. Despite attempts by the agents to melt invisibly into the Saigon press corps, their cover was quickly blown. MACOI tried to brush off the incident by blaming it on a major who had approved the cards, but in fact he had merely obeyed orders. The U.S. embassy pushed for a fuller inquiry. Perhaps the Office of Information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unreal MACOI | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...scientists feel that the outpouring of carbon dioxide, mainly from industry, is forming an invisible global filter in the atmosphere. This filter may act like a greenhouse: transparent to sunlight but opaque to heat radiation bouncing off the earth. In theory, the planet will warm up. The icecaps will melt; the oceans will rise by 60 ft., drowning the world's coastal cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Earth from Man | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

OKAY MRS. DAVIS, now you just sit back and relax you've done it all just right. Now we're climbing up there into the blue yonder-can't let those bombs go just now, see, they'll melt us out of the sky. Now soon we'll be over the target. Okay now you'll see. Just pull back that lever. Uh huh. A little more...

Author: By Robin V. B. davis, | Title: Children Before Harvard-What? An Afternoon Narrative of a high-flyer | 11/12/1969 | See Source »

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