Word: panning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still pointedly directed against Soviet actions in Czechoslovakia. A seven-week tour of the U.S.S.R. by the University of Minnesota symphonic band was canceled. So was a special Aeroflot junket of Russian VIPs to New York to promote the new Moscow-New York flights (though the regular Aeroflot and Pan Am flights will continue). Finally, at week's end, the State Department halted a cultural-exchange program with Poland, and announced that further moves were under consideration. A cultural program with Rumania-the only Warsaw Pact nation that did not join the Czech invasion -will continue...
STRANGE NIGHT VOYAGE: THE MERCHANTS OF DREAMS (A & M Records). Peter Pan, Captain Hook, the clock-gulping Croc; Dorothy from Oz and Alice from Wonderland are aboard for this Strange Night Voyage. "Grow young," plead The Merchants. "Stay young while you can." And off these dream vendors sail in a rocking-beat boat to celebrate the joys of childhood fantasies. A solid performance, full of vitality, taste and style, with meticulous, well-wrought orchestration...
...Well, it's not quite the boss himself, folks. It's his cousin. To play the President, Central Casting tapped J. B. Peck, 66, retired sheriff of Garland, Texas, and L.B.J.'s somewhat look-alike first cousin. It's just a flash of his pan, and J.B. got a kick out of it all. But then, considering the relatively short-term market for his kind of role, he headed back to his job as security guard for the Dallas Cowboys football team...
...more important; when we realize later that Jacqueline's seeing the deed provided the motivation for the final killing, we also remember that Chabrol did show her reactions in close-up--that our watching screen-right instead was not a product of directorial manipulation. In the Hamburg bar, a pan down to black nylons on the neck of a champagne bottle first resembles an adequate scene transition--the camera moving to a place from which to cut away--later takes on the meaning of honest foreshadowing...
Harvard does not enter the IRA because it falls on the same day as the traditional Harvard-Yale race, but Penn had entered the race with two new members in their boat, one of whom was a Pan American Games Gold Metal winner. According to the article, Penn was a new team...