Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast can hardly be blamed for failing to get a fix on their parts. Sargent employed the rapid-fire, four-camera, damn-the-retakes shooting technique of television. However ragged the result on the big screen, this method enabled him to bring in his Harlow for one-seventh the cost ($600,000) of a rival Harlow being produced simultaneously by Joseph Levine. More important, he finished it in one-seventh the time (eight days), so that Electrono-vision could steal the plunder from Levine, who will not have his Carroll Baker Harlow ready for premiere until the end of June...
Interestingly, Rayburn emerges from these reminiscences as a good tabulator of votes, but a fairly ineffective leader. On the fight to make the Rules Committee more responsive to the leadership, for example, Rayburn declined the best method for seemingly insubstantial reasons. A purge of Colmer from the Rules Committee for not supporting the party ticket in 1960 could have been quite easily accomplished in party caucus. Rayburn chose instead to enlarge the Committee, a move which required vote of the full House--including Republicans--and therefore brought on a long, bitter fight, apparently because of sentiment (purges aren't nice...
...proposed method for House assignment would allow students in rank Houses and Masters to rank students, than have a computer tabulate the assignments...
...slicked with Hollywood grease with find the documentary technique irritating. Characters stammer, tangle lines; the photographer zooms in for close-ups with all the subtlety of a TV camera chasing a foul ball into the bleachers; nothing climatic, or scary, or terribly funny ever happens. Me, I thought the method, endlessly exciting--if only as a harbinger of low-budget honesty to come. (The distributors insist on classing their films with David and Lisa. It's much, much better...
...mispronunciation of seminar, is the name given to a self-help haven for drug addicts, founded seven years ago in California and now offering shelter and hope to 550 ex-addicts on both coasts. Filmed at Synanon House in Santa Monica, this tawdry little melodrama explains the method only sketchily, but exploits it at length...