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Fitzgerald's cause came to the attention of Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, one of the military's harshest critics. Overcoming an attempt by Pentagon officials to restrict Fitzgerald's testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, Proxmire then launched into a smooth exchange with his prize witness. The dialogue was so smooth, in fact, that some observers wondered if the lines had not been well rehearsed in advance...
...sizable share of the credit goes to Pitcher Dave McNally, 26, a smooth, powerful lefthander. Last season, he won 14 games and lost only two after the All-Star break, winding up with a 22-10 record as the Orioles finished in second place behind the Detroit Tigers. This year he has already won eleven straight games. His overpowering performance has given the club a quality it had sorely lacked-leadership for a fitfully effective mound staff...
...above their physical settings and live in a triumphant, artistic, romantic style. But the camera sweeping through dinners and dances traps them in the gay motion of high society, a motion of great fragility in its almost pure, reflected human forms. The motion of their figures in Ophuls' long, smooth takes being continuous, the characters are also trapped in time, locked to their very motion and change of place. Then at the end of Madame de...the heroine's lover is shot in a duel. She simply stops; Ophuls intercuts an extraordinary series of medium and long shots...
...ship only to discover her affair with an officer. The sweeping camera movements which follow this child through the ship and express her curiosity and longing, ironically stress the objects and walls that confine her movement through the cramped lower deck. But complete imprisonment is prevented both by her smooth motion down long corridors and through crowded rooms, and by her detached, wondering viewing of objects. At the end of the sequence she flees the crowded lower deck and goes above, into the open air. The beauty of her and the camera's motions, the freedom of the space around...
...excitement about this smooth, sweet and innocent fruit...