Word: projectionists
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Impressed by this logic, I suggested that we notify the projectionist. We got up to leave, drawing scowls from two young women in peasant blouses seated behind...
...covered in cardinal red velvet. Like all dedicated cinemagnates, Spiegel has his own home-projection facilities. The wide screen is hidden behind curtains. When he wants to put on a private screening, Spiegel presses a button, and two paintings-a Rouault and a Picasso-slide aside to reveal the projectionist's peepholes...
...month old "revivals" like Our Man in Havana and larded at either end with saponaceous strains of Muzak, our once beloved theatre sounds like the Waldorf until the lights go off, and from there on out there's little to do but yawn and beat it as the projectionist trots out either second-rate foreign films like Rosemary or recently produced box-office certainties like Orfeu Negro...
With an offer of a job as a movie projectionist, provided she could find some films to project, handsome Use hurried to Munich, batted her eyes at the first U.S. Army film officer she found, soon had her hands on a steady supply of prewar German productions. Two years later, Use borrowed 50,000 marks from a bank, bought 30 installments of Zorro serials from the U.S.'s Republic Pictures, and pieced together two full-length features. She made a million marks from her investment and used her profits to start Gloria Films in a Munich basement...
Searching the neighborhood, police found ten bombs, twelve detonators and nine bullets beneath the bed of Projectionist Georghios Kaliyorou, 20, who had living quarters in the movie theater. Kaliyorou himself was nowhere to be found. British army explosive experts insisted that the bombs, oozing nitroglycerin, were too dangerous to move, and two hours later got telephone permission from Governor Sir Hugh Foot for what Cypriots angrily denounced as a deliberate reprisal. The men were authorized to blow up the bombs where they were-inside the three-story movie house right in the middle of Famagusta...