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Schaffner's direction has no charisma, no wit, little skill. With the exception of the obvious, lowangle shots of Gregory Peck as the evil doctor, his camera set-ups are standard and static, the editing choppy and unrhythmical, the use of select German symphonies and thundering crescendos at the sight of Peck ludicrous. The pace is non-existent until the last twenty minutes, a bloody brawl between Peck and Laurence Olivier as an old Nazi-hunter, when it may be labeled "slow." The old men resort to biting each other, and the graphic shredding of Olivier's ear and Peck...
...Playing the imperious Queen, she uses broad, almost sculptured arm gestures. A moment later she is running like a girl or jumping dervish-like in tight circles. But there are no pauses or silences here, and finally no intimacy with An tony. The characterization, for all its motion, is static...
Last year Bantam Books President Oscar Dystel spread a little gloom among his colleagues when he cautioned that net unit sales?the actual number of. paperback books sold?have remained fairly static since 1973, William R. Grose, editor in chief of Dell, takes a grimmer view. "I used to think there was a ceiling on paperback rights. Now I don't know. The consumer is the one who pays for all this nonsense, and the consumer doesn't seem to have balked. Everyone you talk to will say it's an unhealthy situation, but no one knows what...
...course, a spectacle very different from French art. Instead of the relatively ordered conversations of the masters of the School of Paris, we see a kind of telephone exchange buzzing with impacted messages and manned, much of the time, by desperate operators; among the shouts and static and discontinuous sentences there is a certain visionary urgency-a belief that art could act directly on the world-whose intensity had few parallels in art communities located to the west of the Rhine...
...none of its cases, said Brennan, had the Supreme Court ever ruled that the Constitution is color blind. It does not make sense, he declared, to try to eliminate the evil of racial discrimination and then forbid the remedies that are required to accomplish this. Congress avoided any "static definition of discrimination in favor of broad language that could be shaped by experience, administrative necessity and evolving judicial doctrine...