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...still have no materials with which to build houses or plant crops. Rice has doubled in price. "Mujib" has announced a broad program of governmental assistance. Low-paid civil servants and employees of nationalized businesses will receive monthly cost of living allowances of $2 to $3.30. Small farmers who till eight acres or less will be exempt from rent arrears, interest and taxes. Mujib also raised the minimum wage from 100 takas to 150 takas ($20) a month...
Such as? "Well, from the time I get up till the time I get to sleep, I think constantly about sex and death." In this he is not too dissimilar from the rest of humankind. But there is a dark side to Allen's obsession that occasionally hovers above the laughter. From the beginning, for instance, he has been fond of ambiguous God jokes: "The message is, God is love, and you should lay off fatty foods." God references appear throughout his films and sketches. In a piece called Mr. Big, Allen, a hard-cooked private...
...stereo, the shower was running, and out of the steam came a croaky voice singing Tumbling Dice. Then out of the shower, into his underpants, and out into the big bright kitchen came Dick Miller, 23, home after a long day clerking at the art-supplies store. "Three hours till we hear the greatest rock-'n'-roll band in the world," Miller yelled out the window to no one in particular...
...film has some shaky motivation and more than a fair share of trickery, but Hitchcock is such a superb storyteller that few viewers will even notice till well after the final fadeout. What they will notice is the perversity of the film. In one mind-boggling sequence, Bob tries to pry his diamond pin from the stiff fingers of the corpse that he has stashed inside a potato sack...
...clippings on my typewriter. A small sheet of copy paper with "fatals round-up" written on it held all the sheets together. The City Editor came over to explain how I should write the fatals round-up. It was very busy then, with only an hour to go till edition time. The horseshoe copy desk was packed with copy editors and the twenty or so other desks were each in use with reporters gabbing on the phone, pecking at the typewriters, or sneaking off to the coffeepot in the mailers' room down by the presses. The City Editor never finished...