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...soon as the wheels left the ground," said Navy Commander Paul Shaffer, the top military man on the mission, "everyone was cheering and clapping." More than 20 hours later, they landed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the cargo was then shipped to Oak Ridge aboard four nondescript but heavily defended three-truck convoys...
...that Robert Frank is among the most important living photographers is a statement so at odds with his rough-edged accomplishment that it obscures its own point. Frank is the genius of the marginal and the unofficial. The nondescript corner of some ratty diner in South Carolina, the smudged window that opens onto the dreariest rooftops in Butte, Montana, the vacant stare of an elevator operator in Miami Beach -- these are things the Swiss-born Frank decided were central to comprehending his adopted nation. Important is a funny word to attach to a man so suspicious of whatever is well...
...this trend continues, somebody will have to tell the salespeople, the ones who deal with customers face-to-face. To help this process along, Oldsmobile has opened a $25 million "Vision Center" in a nondescript industrial park outside Detroit. Inside, the facility resembles a movie sound stage, with flowing spaces and a spiffy, glass-walled showroom of the future. Large framed printed slogans (OLDSMOBILE'S FUTURE IS IN THE HANDS OF OUR CUSTOMERS) hang on the walls...
King Harvard arranged a contest between threemore eligible suitors: Prince Adams, a pretentiousintellectual, Prince Mather, a tetherball star,and Prince Quincy, a nondescript pre-med with aproclivity for foosball...
This initial scene established both the tone and symbolism of the movie. Sophie, whom Irene hires, and who becomes the diva's personal maid as well as accompanist, is shown always in shadow, often in transit, and frequently on staircases. Indeed, her nondescript character becomes almost obtrusive in the film. Irene, by contrast, is invariably in the spotlight, observed not her elusive lover, Jacques (Samuel Labarthe). While Sophie is famished and shabbily dressed, a perpetual onlooker, Irene, the consummate actress, is adorned with smiles and the white dress she will wear in performance throughout the movie. Though the characters appears...