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...picture is totally Mifune's but this is due more to Kurosawa's expertise than the actor's, since Mifune tends to rely upon a fairly predictable set of movements no matter what role he plays. He can always be expected to use a toothpick as a prop, to scratch upon occasion and to walk with the same gait. In the cutting room and on the set Kurosawa transformed these actions into a portrait of a pensive, slightly down-and-out, but still powerful samurai...
...which has severe ups and downs, no executive can match the record of Robert Six, the 64-year-old president of Continental Airlines. Since starting the Los Angeles-based line 34 years ago, Six has lost money in only one year-1958, when Continental made the costly changeover from prop planes to jets...
Brecht is best produced with the simplest of scenery, as the current production illustrates amply. The stage takes on two foci: the massed chorus and the red box which the leaders use as a multi-purpose prop for their scenarios. Three objects make up a sort of backdrop. A sign-board carrying the number and title of the current scene expresses the movement of the play and places each scene in the whole. A map of Mukden and environs locates the action in space. A poster of Lenin indicates the dominating ideology, and shows that the whole dramatic inquest...
...importance of his actions. Fletcher Word plays Hamlet who seems neither intense nor melancholy. Liz Hollister, however, portrays Ophelia effectively both in her Shakespearean and comi-tragic contexts; she performs her lines, taken directly from Hamlet, with suitable emotion, but dumbly submits to her being used as a prop in the play staged by Claudius and Polonius...
Large American corporations in Southern Africa, such as Gulf, only serve to prop up these racist regimes and strengthen the political and economic ties of these regimes to the United States. When these United States corporations, the State Department, and their faithful supporters (such as Harvard University) talk about improving conditions for blacks they betray their paternalist, racist and colonialist mentality and act against the wishes of the African people they claim they are "helping...