Word: metros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberals were elated last weekend by the Senate's passage of Governor Volpe's three per cent limited sales tax. Enactment of the new tax plan, they reasoned, would provide the state with the funds to implement long overdue programs in the areas of education, mental health, welfare, and metro-politan planning. We hope that their enthusiasm was not premature...
...years to persuade Algerians that they were Frenchmen, while in Paris, 200,000 Algerians living in jerry-built Afro-Islamic Harlems were not allowed to be Parisians. For them the dirty work and a diet of boiled cabbage, of terror and reprisal, of po lice chasing Algerians into the Metro and beating them up underground, and of the noise of distant plastic bombs to make it all exciting...
...hours' worth of color footage to be cut down to the final 3 hrs. 17 mins. To Lean, who made his reputation in the mid-'30s as a film editor, cutting is the ultimate art and his all-engrossing love. He moved into the stucco cottage on Metro's Culver City lot, formerly a schoolhouse for Child Stars Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Liz Taylor, and began the ordeal that for the past ten weeks has kept him in the cutting room until 2, 3 and, over last weekend, until...
Repeatedly he has trudged to the nearby sound studio. There French Composer Maurice Jarre, an Oscar-winner for his Lawrence background music, was conducting his 104-man symphony orchestra to synchronize with the Zhivago images flickering on the big overhead screen. In Metro's screening theater, Lean has slumped, listening to the mix of 20 different soundtracks being blended into the four final ones, occasionally growling criticisms, such as "There's no sound of it snowing" or "That baby's crying is too loud." Not until noon this Monday, when he falls aboard the plane...
Eventually, Jacques learns that he can see through things as though they do not exist. He can make people disappear at will; he walks raptly through the daylit Paris streets and the roaring Metro without seeing a soul. Time loses its meaning; he comes home one evening to discover to his mild surprise that he has been away for three whole days...