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Shunning the pedestrian gimmicks of familiar 2-D swashbuckling movies, MGM has contrived a new set of problems for Taylor. There is, of course, the scene with the hero trapped in his palace room as a group of adversaries outside threaten to break down the door. Knights of the Round Table adds a degree of sophistication: Robert Taylor discovers that his sword is out at the blacksmith's for repairs and has to fight off the first few rogues with a torch. Later, in the wrestling scene between the cunning antagonist and the formidable knight, the pair work their...
Miss Julie displays far more effectively the genius of director Alf Sjoberg than that of Strindberg, for the visual effects threaten to swallow the story itself. Although the script changes barley a line of the play, the film projects the drama on an infinitely broader canvas, interpolating speeches with artful flashbacks. As a result, Miss Julie dispels much of the tautness and unity of the play and frequently accentuates its dated melodrama. Whether a less imaginative transcription of Miss Julie would hold much interest for modern audiences is questionable, however. The place of Strindberg's picture of tormented souls...
...whose territory it sits. Lyttelton gave his blessing to the idea of a Nigerian D.C., and the result was that Dr. Zik suddenly proclaimed himself an "I-Like-Lyttelton" man. Awolowo's reaction was to blast the burly Tory as "a Machiavellian divider and ruler," and to threaten to pull Yoru-baland out of the federation...
...against Communism?" Replied Kamin: Yes, in a sense, by teaching him that the world was not all black, that there "were varying shades of grey." Like Furry, Kamin refused to identify others he had known as Communists.* By their stand, the two witnesses gave McCarthy a chance to 1) threaten them with contempt citations, and 2) continue his feud with Harvard and Pusey. He would, he said, with obvious satisfaction, "hate to decimate the Harvard faculty" by sending Furry and Kamin to jail, but that might be the only way of dealing with "Pusey's Fifth Amendment Communists."* Later...
...were high, construction costs were rising; 2) inventories were high but not abnormal; 3) money was abundant, but there was a slight financial squeeze early in the year, plus a slight decline in Government spending. Substantially the same factors are at work now, says Clark. Ergo, the same consequences threaten...