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...encourage backers who were dismayed at the commercial anemia of his critical successes, Truffaut in The Soft Skin abandoned the visual conceits of, narrow and widening screen and rocketing flashbacks that characterized his previous works. Skin was a mild film of convention that won few admirers. Fahrenheit 451, starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie, was his only true failure, an atypically emotionless sci-fi attempt to show the future as nightmare. The fact, of course, that it was done in English by a director who could not speak the language made the project disaster-prone from the beginning...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Ship of Fools (1965). Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner and George Segal star in the motion-picture adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's best-selling 1962 novel. Repeat...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Ship of Fools (1965) with Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner and George Segal...
...book to "free markets," Dorfman on the last page suddenly talks about free enterprise, and furthermore adds the obiter dictum about the connection between capitalism and democracy! In fact, most elements of the market system, although not of laissezfaire, are completely compatible with a socialist economy. Indeed, economist Oskar Lange, in his book on The Economic Theory of Socialism, capably argues that market socialism is more able to realize the theoretical outcomes of the market model than capitalism as it is usually practiced...
...wrinkly-crinkly, all-squeezed-together-in-the-middle sort of face that appears to have just been released from a duck press. Caine has a soft little mouth that seems to be slowly crawling away and a hollow in his chest that a girl could sip champagne from. And Oskar Werner ?well, actually he's as straight as they come, but at first glance people some times wonder if he isn't Julie Andrews in drag...