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...vacant lot, two kids wrestle among the blackened cans and broken glass. Men sit on the stoops of the rotting brownstone tenements, or stand in curiously static groups around a store front. There are girls in short, shiny black dresses, insolent-eyed young bucks in sharp, striped suits. Dogs, furtive and thin-ribbed, slink through the areaways sniffing for scraps. In an abandoned building, windows glare emptily, but a family is living in the basement. From other windows patched with adhesive tape and cardboard, women watch the noisy street with worried eyes. They seldom scream-at the kids, as women...
...shape of things to come is fuzzier than a static-fogged TV screen. Jittery as they are, the moviemakers know that a rapidly expanding TV needs their talents and their products. TV men concede that more than 50% and possibly as much as 90% of future TV entertainment will have to be on film. Smalltime independent film producers are already busily grinding out TV shorts. Even Skouras guardedly admitted last week to 20th Century-Fox stockholders that part of the company's studio would be devoted to making films for TV in the home. Going much further, veteran Producer...
Joan's "inner life" offered more opportunity for soliloquy in her cell than for dramatic movement. The limply worded libretto, by Queens College Music Professor Joseph Machlis, was not only static but too often banal. And the music, well-made but often weak where it needed strength, was more effective at setting moods than delivering powerful operatic punches...
When it was done, the astonished officials saw a rich, bright picture that had undeniably been painted in Tintoretto's exuberant style. For Tintoretto, the composition was curiously static and as flatly arranged as a department-store window. But the figures were brilliantly conceived. "It's a corker," crowed Museum Director George Edgell. "I don't think I've ever seen so lovely a Virgin...
...Richard W. Porter, head of "Project Hermes," as G.E. calls its rocket program with Army Ordnance, feels that the German lead has been overcome. The G.E. rocket motors, some of which were static-tested spectacularly for the visitors, are about 10% more efficient than the motors of the V-25. They are smaller for the equivalent power, and they burn commercially pure alcohol instead of the alcohol mixed with 25% water that the Germans used to hold down the heat of combustion. The improvements, Dr. Porter believes, will show up in payload-the ultimate payoff of rocketry. G.E. does...