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...actors resent finding themselves employed as objects, and the only consolation I can offer is that they have nonetheless played a major part in an intensely personal, equally harrowing, romance between the film-maker and what his mind projects through a camera onto a screen. Both films employ the simplest dramatic premises as foundation for an exploration into the diverse often-abstract preoccupations of their auteurs. Both Lady Jane and Stranger are as much about their creators as their subjects. They prove if nothing else, that the films of people whose cameras are too small for anyone but themselves...
...evening ripples with laughter, a renewed credit to Williams' fluent comic sense. Yet the undertone of the play is prevailingly sad. The characters are sterile in their neurotic self-concern, people who cannot feed each other the simplest joys of life because each is so busy devouring himself...
...simplest demonstration of weakness in the Executive Branch," Bundy said, "is its subordination to Congress in matters of appropriation and taxation." He cited the present impasse over the tax increase as a case of Congress frustrating the Executive...
Carbon tetrachloride (CC14) is one of the simplest of chemicals and one of the most potent. It is a great fire extinguisher, a powerful pesticide, will dry off dew-shorted spark plugs, and is such a versatile solvent that it will vaporize the grease stains out of a dress or tar from the rug in no time...
Haunches & Knuckles. It sounds like utter gobbledygook until Jordan explains what he means by "playing keys." In simplest terms it means to study an opponent, searching for clues to his intentions, then outmaneuvering him to break up the play. It can be as simple as noting the direction of an enemy lineman's charge-and divining that the play will go the opposite way. It can also be pretty cute. "When an offensive guard comes up to the line," says Tackle Ray Jacobs of the American Football League's Miami Dolphins, "I watch the way he sets himself...