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BLACK COMEDY mixes a technique of Chinese theater with stage business from vaudeville. It is strictly a one-joke play-about the goings-on when the lights go off -but the joke works. Peter Shaffer is the playwright, Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page the leading actors...
...Press International bought the film from Nix and persuaded Massachusetts' Itek Corporation, which specializes in sophisticated photographic equipment and photographic-analysis processes, to find out what Nix's camera really captured. Employing advanced methods that were not available to the Warren Commission, Itek concluded in a 55-page report that 1) no one could be discerned on the suspect area of the knoll, 2) the purported figure of a rifleman was actually a tree's shadow, 3) the raised object was probably a vehicle in a parking lot behind the knoll, and 4) because of abutments...
...bridge the gap between the civil service cops and their city employers. Then he retained Bonsib, Inc., a Fort Wayne, Ind., public relations company. "We needed to get the man on the street to understand the police and their problems," explained Berry. Bonsib began by drawing up a 28-page, how-to-win-friends-for-cops course (sample tip: "Take advantage of every opportunity to publicly show policemen in non-badge-and-gun situations"). Next came a request to City Manager William Wichman to open wage negotiations. When he refused, Bonsib recommended citizens' petitions, house-to-house calls...
Everyone is familiar with the way the evil practice called "quoting out of context" works. For example, a routine advertisement citing a review of this work might run thus: "WELL-WRITTEN . . . YOU'LL ENJOY . . . EVERY PAGE OF THIS BOOK . . . PUBLISHED WITH A GRANT FROM THE FORD FOUNDATION...
...actual review ought to go like this: "If you're looking for a well-written book about quotations, this isn't it. However, it does bring to mind how much you'll enjoy rereading Bartlett's. Every page of this book is padded with the author's insistent belaboring of the obvious. A key quotation is also omitted: the argument he used to get his book published with a grant from the Ford Foundation...