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...sticky, squint-eyed world of the stamp collector was rocked to its very perforations last week. It was a flurry over a flaw, and as every one of the U.S.'s more than 13 million stamp collectors knows, a flaw is worth far more than perfection. Rarity is, of course, the touchstone by which all stamps are valued; but more often than not, a rare stamp is different from millions of its counterparts only because it has some technical disfigurement. To the tweezer-and-magnifying-glass set, discovery of such minor imperfections as missing watermarks or too-much-violet...
...Rembrandt on film." That is, he took a painterly technique and set it in motion. Intellectually this may sound fine, but it doesn't make much sense on the screen unless the director supports the tone of his narrative with it. In this case, he made me squint...
Hals usually preferred to let his subjects stand or sit on an empty stage with only their personalities-a tightness of the lip, a squint of the eyes, a proud thrust of the head-constituting the action. His Married Couple (see color) was one of the exceptions. The two young people seem to have flung themselves into their coy positions only a moment ago, and they look as if they might just as hurriedly get up to go on about their business. The manicured landscape in the background is strangely sentimental for a realist like Hals; critics believe that...
Shepard relaxed on the couch until 3:55. Then, escorted by two doctors, he carried his portable air-conditioning unit out of the building. Glaring TV lights met him head on, forcing him to squint his eyes. He climbed into the white transport van, lay down on another contour couch while the van drove slowly...
...camera's eye pans over the ravages of a Lost Weekend in Eliot House, as seven bleary-eyed dissipates scratch their navels, belch, and squint unbelievingly as an elegant figure, clutching a Neville Chamberlain umbrella, hoists himself through an upper-story window into their midst. And so begins "Three Giant Steps," a 21-minute silent comic film which opens tomorrow night in the Eliot House dining hall...