Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...submergence in the frenzied non-involvement around him, and commitment to reality. Essentially weak, he inevitably succumbs to the daily temptations of his life and profession. For example, in the middle of examining the most important pictures he has ever taken, he allows himself to take part in a mini-orgy with two teen-age would-be models; on his way to the scene of the crime to photograph the corpse, he is diverted by a pot party and loses the opportunity to take the picture...
Blow-Up's editing is weakest when the script allows Antonioni to be self-indulgent, the scenes in which he passes judgment on mod society. The cutting in the first photography session with Verushka, the mini-orgy, the rock and roll sequence seems purposeless and overly self-conscious. Antonioni's best editing is found in the sequences with dramatic purpose and direction: the blow-up sequence and the discovery of the corpse. Both deal with extended action--a lengthy process of printing and examining photo enlargements, and a long walk through a park--and Antonioni must use editing...
...main thing about a Parisian mini-Shetland is not its downy wool or its colors, which range from black to brilliant to pastel, but its size. No blooming French lassy, no matter what her measurements, will wear anything larger than a size designed for a 12-year-old child. The effect is that old-fashioned look of the sweatered pinup girl, with une petite différence, s'il vous plaît. To fit properly, the long-sleeved mini-Shetlands should not quite reach to the wrists. This summer, the waist was high enough to leave a patch...
Ideal Solution. The Belgian government stayed out of the affair, fearing that racial strife could break out and endanger the 45,000 Belgians in the Congo. The ideal solution to the impasse would be an agreement by Union Minière that the nationalization was the legitimate action of an independent nation, and by the Congo that compensation is a part of any legitimate nationalization. If that should happen, Union Minière could probably be recruited to continue marketing Congolese copper at a healthy profit to itself. If an agreement cannot be reached, the Congo is in for some...
...Shetland pony is a very small pony from the Shetland Islands in the North Sea. What, then, is a "mini-Shetland"? A Shetland pony that has strayed into the territory of the head-shrinking Jivaro Indians of Peru? Not quite. It's a sweater, and it's the latest style in Paris-not exactly from the showrooms of Courrèges or Balenciaga, but hard to miss on the mesdemoiselles at Castel's discothèque or in Le Drugstore on the Boulevard St. Germain...