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Bertolucci turns an equally sensitive eye to shade and tone. Stucco covered by luxuriant ivy, the red tile roofs of the village when the sun is high, are played off against a haunting night-time blue in which lamps stand out in the windows, or, in one stunning scene, a fire leaps up and down, leaving a lingering after-image on film pushed close to the limits of its sensitivity...
When World War II broke out. Weller signed on with the Chicago Daily News and was assigned to cover the Pacific campaign. Weller wrote his dispatches with a real flair for drama; his reports were filled with vivid detail and infused with a sense of immediacy. A tile he titled "I'm still in there Pitching" and datelined "Somewhere in Australia" in which be reconstructed a life-saving operation by pharmacist's mate in a submarine under enemy waters, won him the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting. It's a tribute to Weller's dramatic flair that his story...
...doing a number of stateside assignments before achieving the rank of foreign correspondent and being sent to The Journal's Hong Kong Bureau. It was in Hong Kong that Kann first received wind of an impending struggle between India and Pakistan, Stationing himself in the troubled area. Kann's tile forecast the India-Pakistan War and the founding of Bangladesh. In recognition of his reporting he received the 1972 Pulitzer for International Correspondence...
...drums, and away they went into Dancing in the Street. Up in the engineer's booth, a spectator, Rock Guitarist Mike Bruce, fell under Damon's spell and slid off a stool to the floor. A bystander caught Bruce's head inches from the tile floor...
...Church and grade school are all running low; Father John Dorton worries that "you can't have kids in class freezing." For want of fuel, some firms like AMF Western Tool Division (which turns out lawnmowers and such winter products as snowplows) and Can Tex (which manufactures brick, tile and sewer pipe at plants in Ottumwa, Redfield and Mason City) have had to stop production altogether or cancel night shifts. Governor Robert Ray has asked the University of Iowa and all large businesses in the state to switch back to burning highly polluting No. 5 or No. 6 fuel...