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...PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The final volume of an excellent biographical trilogy on Trotsky, in which Stalin is shown using the immense apparatus of international Communism to stalk his old rival from country to country, to murder his sons, and finally to strike down the tough old man himself...
...Hills! A man chops vigorously at the trunk of a tree containing 36 girls. Somebody grabs somebody's nose in a nutcracker and darn near twists it off. A yokel sits on his front porch and earnestly whittles a new seat for a two-holer. Two young men stalk a birthday cake and then pump it full of bullets. One of them runs slowly across the screen, stark-naked. "Cuckoo!" says a clock on the sound track. "Cuckoo!" And it really...
...twitching of a hazel twig betrayed the nearness of criminals, still looked to omens and cabalistic signs as a guide to the future. The Swedish poet Georg Stiernhielm was accused of witchcraft for burning a peasant's beard with a magnifying glass, and witches would continue to stalk the lands of Europe for as long as King Louis lived (Durant reports that in Scotland the last one was sent to the stake in 1722). But at the same time, Hooke was developing the compound microscope, which transformed the study of the cell; Nicolaus Steno was studying the development...
Their imitators are legion. All over the world-in Canada, Greece, Brazil, Japan, Israel, Hungary and both Germanys, even in Moscow and immoderately in Manhattan-cinemania has descended upon the rising generation. Young men at all hours of the day and night stalk through the streets clutching fleaweight cameras and proclaiming prophetically a new religion of cinema. Its creed has been passionately enunciated by Director Truffaut...
...pushing it downward in passing. The machine's small, electronic memory box has already been told how stiffly a ripe head should resist deflection. If the black box decides the head feels ripe, it triggers a clutch, which in turn sends a miniature guillotine slashing through the lettuce stalk. In recent tests, the machine lopped off some 4,500 heads an hour -five times more than the nimblest human headsman. Davis engineers are already at work building a pickup machine to follow the cutter...