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...commendable, it is slightly misplaced and diversionary. For the fact is that without the cooperation of city machinery, welfare hotels would not exist as they do. The health department, charged with the task of inspecting the hotels regularly, looks the other way. Welfare has asked the department to shutter two hotels in the past three years, for example, but both are still very much in business. Also, city housing officials have traditionally discriminated against welfare families applying for low-cost housing...
...wooded areas, all this in frenetic, black-and-white photography which evokes the 1920's. To suggest a chase within the house, the director achieves an even more perfect fusion of film and stage action. As the real Soldier and Gloria gape from one open window, the other window shutter springs open, on film, and we see the ominous Mrs. Schmidt-Gordon seeking her prey...
...plans to produce fewer unfinished items and more higher-priced finished steels used for auto bodies and appliances. Aluminum Co. of America is dropping some marginally profitable lines, notably welded tubing and automobile pistons. Inventories are coming under closer scrutiny. Ford announced two weeks ago that it will soon shutter its Pittsburgh parts warehouse and send parts by truck directly from Detroit...
Bailey's highly subjective shutter shows Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski in a bare-chested embrace, looking like an older, less innocent reincarnation of Romeo and Juliet. Candice Bergen poses as though she belongs on the prow of a ship-and says that she "can't think of anything grimmer than being an ageing actress; god, it's worse than being an ageing homosexual." Rudolf Nureyev romps with Cecil Beaton; Jeanne Moreau presses her fingers nervously to her mouth; Malcolm Muggeridge scowls in fearsome closeup. And Fashion Designer Douglas Hayward remarks: "Everyone is so insecure . . . what...
...have only fear. Scared to walk on the streets of Cambridge, afraid to drive in Roxbury, frightened by the news of violent acts, the response of people is to shutter the windows, bolt the door, and scream for more police protection...