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Certainly, unification of Vietnam is a paramount objective on economic as well as ideological grounds. Because the French developed Vietnam as a simple unit, economic progress in both North and South can only be hampered by division. With heaviest industrial concentration in the North, the South suffers from its loss of native manufactured goods. And the North without the rice basket of the South finds itself presently unable to meet its agricultural production needs...
...with a Weillanously blasphemous parody of priate background music has been concocted by Robert Prince, who strikes the right note at the Rossini's Stabat Mater (which is, indeed, blasphemous even in the original), and later summons up remembrances or Mendelssohn's Spring Song and the concluding fanfare of Paramount newsreels...
...practice in these columns, your filmic horizons, we direct your attention to the Hub's suburbs (say that aloud and you will have created something): by and large, you will find there the best for less. Let us instance forth the green vales of Needham; at that town's Paramount Theatre Jacque Tati's Mon Oncle is paired, in a manner of speaking, with the great School for Scoundrels. Again: Dorchester's Adams Theatre (GE 6-2080) has two fine dramas on tap, Picnicand Psycho, neither of which is easily forgotten, if for widely differing reasons. Finally, you may still...
...impress visitors, he shamelessly buzzes his secretary with orders to "Get me Dore," or "Get me Cole." Starting a typical deal, he will call up 20th Century-Fox and tell them he is asking $200,000 for a client's new novel, think it over. Then he calls Paramount and tells them that Fox is considering...
...Late Blues (Paramount). "I believe in movies, not money," said John Cassavetes when he went West to make this picture. Shadows, the film he improvised in Manhattan with a cast of unknown actors and a budget of $40,000 (TIME, March 24), had caused the critics of two continents to bow down before him. and as he surveyed the gilded hills of Hollywood Director Cassavetes apparently felt like a voice crying in the wilderness of materialism. "In Hollywood," he announced loudly, "they want to make pictures that make money. They don't understand and they don't care...