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Witnesses who had seen the Center's third floor- sealed to the public since early yesterday morning- said that the explosion had demolished the non-supporting walls, broken through the ceiling and into the attic, and stripped the plaster away from supporting walls, leaving curved, petal-shaped scars...
...down for the night," he says. "But when the mortars start, the corridor is recommended." Visitors, he adds, are invariably "amazed at the hotel's capacity to absorb fire during the night and pick up next morning as if nothing had happened. They just sweep up the plaster and glass, and break out the cheese sandwiches...
...Seferis, recounts an old Cypriot tale in which a bunch of cats (read colonels) wipe out an invasion of snakes (read Communists), only to wind up poisoned by snake venom. A second story alludes to a remark of Premier Papadopoulos that contemporary Greece is like a patient in a plaster cast, which will be removed only when the patient is politically cured. In the story, a pair of mad doctors are zealously outfitting a man in a plaster cast from head to toe: such is the colonels' cure...
...Plaster Castinq. Getting Straight would thus seem to be aimed at the silent majority, but that would be crediting it with a species of integrity; the film is out for everyone's patronage regardless of taste or creed. Suddenly arguing for the dissenters, Bailey screams at the college president: "You can't hold back the hands on the clock; they'll rip your arms...
...film refuses to take sides with its characters, it adopts a firm stand toward its actors: it is against them. Producer-Director Richard Rush sets his cast at shriek level. Even the elegant Candice Bergen, who at last seems ready to break through plaster casting (The Magus, The Adventurers), is given too much to yell and not enough to say. Elliott Gould is a natural clown; his hands are an act in themselves, and his hair seems to be coiling for a strike. Yet only once does Getting Straight allow him an original scene. At the oral exam...