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...sentences are short, relatively flat, but it covers more subjects than the other sets. Britannica has large type, the shortest, most oversimplified articles, the fewest illustrations and a dry factual style. Compton's writing is lively and it covers such child-intriguing topics as magic and fairies but more prosaic topics are often overdone. A child has to work through nine pages to learn about the U.S. Postal service...
Bunuel's 42 minute black comedy, "Simon of the Desert" turned out to be one of his most flawless, if shortest, films. "Simon," a re-telling of the life of the famous ascetic who spent most of his life standing on a huge pillar in the desert, is a synthesis of Bunuel's anti-clerical nature and his feelings about temptation and innate corruption in society. Bunuel heightened the power of the theme with photography and cutting. Using simple, almost formal, camera movement to create a sense of Simon's grandeur and isolation, Bunuel undercuts the effect with his cynical...
Classical Process. "We all agree that the deficits of reserve-currency countries should be eliminated in the shortest possible time," said France's Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debre. "Any device for the creation of additional reserves would, by definition, immediately provide countries currently in deficit with the means to postpone, against their own best interests, recourse to the classical process of adjustment." In other words, a new reserve would foil France's plan to make the U.S.-and others-settle accounts in gold...
...also had a small but genuine genius, which she poured into some of the best known children's books ever published. In The Tale of Peter Rabbit, one of the simplest, shortest and fastest-moving tales ever written, her pastel-tinted miscreant wiggled under a forbidden fence for a lawless day in Mr. McGregor's garden and wriggled forever into the lives of millions. That story was followed by a score of other children's books, tales of Squirrel Nut-kin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittle-mouse, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and-generally recognized by Potter connoisseurs...
...soap." Norwood makes a deal with Grady Fring the Kredit King to drive an Olds 98 to New York, expenses paid and $50 clear. Fortified by a bottle of NuGrape and a nickel pack of Nabs, he sets out on a jocular junket that confronts him with the second shortest midget in show business, a hypnotized chicken, his future wife, and a climactic offer of employment as "night man at the worm ranch." If this is vaudeville, it is vaudeville with a vengeance. In a dry, wry Arkansas accent, Portis gently tells the home truth about the Norwoods...