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...shot entirely on soundstages designed by Santo Loquasto. Narrow cobblestone streets, gaslights and footbridges enhance the gloomy atmosphere. Shimmery ponds and a fake night sky further increase the mood and the comedy. Allen establishes the tone of the picture when a mystic (Charles Cragin), who uses his sense of smell to sniff out the strangler, leads to a torch-bearing mob through the winding streets...
...whether Altman's movie will be a hit is to surrender to the players' game: to judge a film's success by its grosses. It is this fascination with the B.O. bull's-eye that strikes timidity in so many directors. In every frame of their work you can smell the fear of failure, the anxiety of losing for even a moment the rooting interest of the moviegoing...
...addition to 71,000 mechanics, engineers and managers who were already laid off over the past three years. General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the grim outlook last week during a visit to Los Angeles. Said he: "Everyone needs to wake up and smell the coffee. I'm telling my folks at the Pentagon, 'Guys, we are having a hell of a fight this fiscal year, but it is nothing compared to what is coming next year...
...gross, filled with slop. Our mess is not slimy. It's whimsical. It's creative. It's the kind of mess we remember from childhood. We have no gnawed pizza crusts from three weeks ago, no half-filled cans of warm Coke. These are only toys; they don't smell and they don't spoil. Perhaps the Play-Doh could dry out and get stale, but we're careful to close the lids tightly. We are very sanitary with our mess...
...return to age-old tradition--once upon a time, Mem Hall was a dining hall. It's not one, however, that any current alumni remember. And just think, President Rudenstine, what the grease of thousands of pan pizzas each week will do to Mem Hall. A permanent smell of pepperoni won't add to its cultural ambience...