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Catching Up with the East. At the North Caucasian city of Stavropol he loosed a proud thunderbolt: "When the figures for the Soviet Seven-Year-Plan (1959-65) become known, the whole world will be amazed at the prospects of the development of the socialist society." From Trade Union Chief Viktor Grishin in Moscow came a few figures to match, promising to achieve by '65 what had originally been targeted...
Though he is often Olympian in his thunderbolt pronunciamentos, calling for ''total, implacable war," face to face Castro is strictly realistic. Questioned about the possibility that Batista might crush the rebels' proposed general strike, he said: "If Batista loses, he loses for good; if I lose, I will just start over again." If he wins, Castro says, he proposes freer labor unions, a crackdown on corruption and punishment for government "criminals"-including bringing Batista to book. These measures imply a great deal of control over Cuba's future by Fidel Castro. He denies all presidential...
Hopper claims that he does most of the cooking himself. "I'm the typical American husband," he adds, and the rare pronouncement, intended to amuse, echoes like a thunderbolt from the enveloping fog bank of his silence. Actually, Hopper fires off a fair share of personal observations, only he spaces them days and weeks apart. Examples: "American women are pretty flat-chested, on the whole.'' "The Pacific Ocean is sort of misty, greyish." "Armenians have no backs to their heads." "I don't see why people are crazy to import French paintings when there...
...fact that the lethal child recovered with no one suspecting her crimes. Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy clearly felt that that was too strong meat to serve moviegoers. In his film, both mother and daughter are saved by modern medicine, and then God steps in with a convenient thunderbolt to erase little Patty...
...making stage entrances and exits. Eileen Heckart, as the bereft mother of Patty's schoolmate, sobs through two long hysterical scenes that may have been effective theater but are merely repetitious film. And, as the horrors and corpses mount up (Patty is planning a fourth murder when the thunderbolt gets her), what had been eerie becomes ludicrous. At the film's end, LeRoy makes his final obeisance to the stage: all the characters smilingly take their bows, and Nancy Kelly-as she did during curtain calls on Broadway-puts Patty across her knee and gives her a spanking...