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...international signal of distress). No action was taken when an American Legion post near by flew its flag upside down to protest Government inaction over the Pueblo's capture. Last month Michael Sauter, 20, was arrested in Topeka for displaying on his car a flag decal with an overlaid peace symbol. The charges were dropped after his lawyer argued that 1) a decal is not a flag, and 2) Topeka police cars bear decals on which the flag design is defaced by the slogan: "Love It or Leave...
...James's Street. Inside such traditional Tory haunts as White's and the Carlton, the good cheer was positively palpable. Board rooms in the City took on renewed bustle, and shopkeepers from Mayfair to Manchester exuded an air of optimism. Britain in general seemed overlaid with a vaguely comfortable feeling that the old masters were back in power...
...which an old, largely inarticulate fellow remembers that "there must have been at least a million of' em," a romanticized long-leased shot of a couple lying down to make love, and the mud-sliding sequence, this sociological material is unimaginative in the extreme. A montage of different babies, overlaid with John Sebastian's saccharine ballad to his son, just about sums...
...characters and explain the film away. The reason for this lies in the sinister, stark quality of Nemec's style, his refusal to locate any action with an establishing shot or relax the rigorous, inexorable pacing of his cutting-the most mundane activities thereby acquiring frightening overtones. And overlaid is a soundtrack which places each image at one inexplicable remove. Beginning with a parody of Hollywood climax music which comes to a syrupy end at the credits, then dribbles away in studio conversation, we are constantly set on edge by murmurs and whispering, grass too loud underfoot...
Moorish-Byzantine architecture is overlaid with stalactite-jagged pieces of stone that evoke a heavy grottolike or grim moonscape atmosphere and achieve a feeling of gloom and doom. Although there were some boos for the scenery on opening night, it did suggest a kind of nightmarish psychological symbolism, and to some critics it made the torment of the characters seem much more lifelike...