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...vogue in Manhattan's rarefied critical circles, it is used with force and conviction in Buffalo, where the cab drivers lecture their fares on the horror of the Albright-Knox's modern art, and where Foss reminds his listeners that the word avant-garde is military in origin. The artist, in his view, is meant to act as a sort of spiritual shock-trooper for society, forcing it to become aware of new conflicts and realities whether it wants...
That more or less describes the origin of Mission: Impossible-in the style and pattern of the show's own standard opening scene. The program is TV's hottest suspense series, and its fans find in it the same inspired implausibility that characterized The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in its prime. Bruce Geller, 37-year-old film, TV and off-Broadway writer who conceived the whole enterprise, concedes that his original script was basically a paste-up of Topkapi and several other favorite movies. When Hollywood wouldn't buy it, he turned to Desilu. When Desilu proposed...
...letter also said that the signers were interested "to know if this job has any restrictions attached to it based on race or national origin." Karunakaran said yesterday that, according to South African law, such restrictions were mandatory...
Green has long believed that most of the major lunar features are volcanic in origin. Since volcanic formations on earth contain hydrous rocks, Green reasons, they may well exist on the moon. Merely heating such rocks to between 500°F. and 800°F., he says, will release as much as a gallon of water per cubic foot of rock...
...bombing. Many of the participants, however, seemed to have come from Central Casting. They were indomitable, photogenic people, barefoot and singing as they cleared away the rubble. (The implication was that the songs were traditional Vietnamese, though according to South Vietnamese sources, they are Red Chinese in origin.) The camera would pan a lovely pastoral tableau. Then the air-raid sirens would scream, and everyone would scramble for one-man, cement-lined foxholes. One sequence depicted a captured American airman. Inevitably, there were affecting shots of injured children and of surgeons working on the wounded by flashlight, and Narrator Greene...