Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectacles of the wrong prescription usually results in a headache. Likewise, the near-sighted squint with which In Cold Blood inspects its subject matter only strains the viewer. With meticulous regard for detail the film attempts to relate the facts surrounding the murder of the Clutter family by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Drawing from Truman Capote's research, the film version of his book reproduces the chilling aspects of this so-called "senseless" crime--the paradoxical motives of the killers, the inability of social conventions to adequately explain the atrocity, and the irony by which the state executes...
NEITHER Hickock nor Smith have any interest in the world beyond their illusory glories. The film manages to keep the killers apart from the guilt of the crime. The guilty party is a third person, created by the challenges Hickock and Smith defy the polarities of sanity and insanity. It is said that neither of them would have committed the act alone. Against their insensitivity, the mechanistic judicial system, with its $300-a-head hangman, bears a brutality...
...trivia for what could be absorbing and coherent action. Perhaps these failings are the result of an attempt to film precise history (even though it may not even be good history). Scenes succeed each other for no apparent reason except to suggest a superficial contrast. For instance, one of Smith's fantasies (which are filmed without a special lens) features an empty room similar to a shot of the court room. No connection can be made out of that. Scenes are spliced together with the same indiscriminate flair for incongruities for incongruity's sake. One should see this film without...
...clutch of Kennedys: Joe Jr., then a sophomore; young Jack, who was "gayer, more easygoing, less politically inclined"; and Joe Sr., whom he approvingly describes as a "real operator." And it was there that he met his future wife, Catherine ("Kitty") Atwater, a petite (5 ft. 4 in.), pretty Smith valedictorian who was studying comparative literature at Radcliffe. "I looked up and up," notes Kitty of their first encounter, "wondering when it was going to stop." In 1937, the day after their marriage, they sailed to England, where Galbraith was to study for a year at Cambridge under Keynes. Galbraith...
...Economic Opportunity got addressed to "The Honorable Margaret G. Muskie, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20501." The last name indicated that it was meant for Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, but first name prevailed, and it went instead to Maine's senior Senator, Republican Margaret Chase Smith. "This surely must be the ultimate in the OEO's great effort for non-partisanship," Maggie told the Senate. "It not only blends a Republican Senator with a Democratic Senator, but the Senate with the House...