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...West nor the East will permit Germany to atone, to "fight the cold war with peace." The endlessly zooming cyclists are part of the space race, and an unseen "General" has decreed that this race must go on and on. When he realizes this, Holbrook picks out a spectral home on the Milky Way. Playwright Wittlinger poses as a Pirandellphic oracle, but his hollow parable is less an adventure of the mind than an abject failure of nerve...
...else but Artzybasheff could capture the hopeless, despairing mood of East Germany's captive peoples with as simple a device as a chain and a spectral padlock. The compelling message of this cover picture is plain, and needs no words of explanation. (MRS.) ALICE A. PAULSON...
Black Sunday (Galatea-Jolly; Al), for instance, is a piece of fine Italian handiwork that atones for its ludicrous lapses with brilliant intuitions of the spectral. Taken from a tale (Fry) by Nikolai Gogol, Black Sunday tells the story of a female demon who once every century rises from a moldy old Moldavian crypt to terrorize the countryside. Director Mario Bava makes subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse...
Astronomers have proposed two cosmogonic theories which are wholly consistent with the spectral observations. The older one assumes a constant diffusion over space of what was originally an exceptionally dense blob of matter. By computing the extent of the red shift at various distances, proponents of this theory have obtained a figure of five billion years as the probable age of the Universe...
...campaign in which he has won certain medals, all of which he insists on explaining. Duc has been decorated for being in and out of Communism (like Author Vailland), in the French underground, and on and off heroin. Women call for special citations. The Hemingway heroine derives from the spectral ladies of Poe. The sleeping bag is a kind of tomb. In a catatonic trance, Lucie does Duc's bidding. "Am I to undress? That's what I came for. Isn't that what you brought...