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...Italy, abandoning the sexually repressed girl to her fantasies. And never has the inch-by-inch descent into total madness been more startlingly recreated on film. Slowly, Polanski assembles the fragments of a nightmare mosaic. A man's undershirt, a razor and a skinned rabbit on a platter become objects of dread. An oppressive silence is broken only by the buzzing of flies, dripping water, a ticking clock. Rooms change shape, the mere flip of a light switch creates fissures in the walls, a phantom ravisher begins to stalk the tiny flat...
...Years on the Bottle. Glick's telephone call-in program is just one of dozens that are proliferating across the U.S., giving the platter parades and baseball broadcasts a run for the ratings. Glick, 43, now with his eighth radio station since 1953, has become a glib, gemütlich master of the new formula. All he has to defend himself against his telephone callers is a tape-delay device, which gives him a four-second time lag in which to erase obscenities from the air. To ease the strain, there is an occasional celebrity visitor such as Songstress...
...fickle pop market, most other record makers operate on a scatter-platter basis, indiscriminately grinding out some 100 new records each week on a hit-and-nearly-always-miss basis. Spector, by contrast, has shown an uncanny knack for catching adolescent ears with nearly every record he produces. Almost all of them celebrate post-pubescent passion: Be My Baby, Then He Kissed Me, Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home. Spector has already made bigtime teen-market recording stars of a succession of singers and vocal groups such as the Ronettes, Bobb B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Darlene Love...
...described as motorcycling hoods. Not many of them have motorcycles, and their appearance is not hoodish. I wonder why adults complain so constantly about teenage drinking, sex, etc., when they are the ones who introduced it all to us. These things have been given to us on a silver platter and have been just about shoved down our throats. I'm not saying we are right in accepting them, but I am saying it's hard not to. It's terribly hard to live in Pacific Palisades, even though everything goes your...
...swallow so preposterous a platter of wiesserschnitzel, 36 hours will have you gagging on our popcorn. The success of the Normandy Landing is hardly in doubt, but Garner manages, with Eva Marie Saint in tow, to lead the Krauts a merry chase...