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...show a storm overtaking Napoleon's boat and its political counterpart shaking Parisian convention, Gance alternates between two scenes bursting with the innovative use of his camera. The storm at sea, tinted a deep blue, is filmed within a vat. Gigantic waves rock the miniature boat with desperate slowness. Gance also shoots some close-up footage, using the same technique as with the chase: a camera fixed beside Napoleon's boat. From the distant view of great waves, we are brought suddenly into the thick of the storm, the young man furiously and futilely bailing his wreck with a bucket...
Marlin Perkins can go to hell. I saw him once at the Boston Aquarium, looking rather pathetically frail in a business suit, pouring water from all seven oceans into a large vat in one of those symbolic gestures of ecological good will. Some newsman asked him if he felt ridiculous working for an insurance company, and Marlin (sans Jim) just smiled and said that, well, he really liked animals more than anything and Mutual of Omaha let him do his work...
Another scarce drug now bubbling out of Genentech's stainless-steel fermentation vat is human growth hormone, used to treat dwarfism. Only limited quantities have been available, most of it extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers. In a test of the hormone, 20 youngsters are currently getting doses of bacterially produced HGH at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children...
...among nations." In her initial budget, she promptly cut income taxes: from 83% to 60% for those earning more than $50,000, and from 33% to 30% for those below. To replace the $9.5 billion in lost revenues, she raised the value-added tax (VAT), a levy on all but barest essentials, to an across-the-board 15%. Public spending in the areas of foreign aid, education, housing and municipal services was cut; housing alone was reduced $3.5 billion...
...party theorizing, spoken entirely in psychobabble (subtitles not provided), matches two of the film industry's most hyperthyroid artists, director Ken Russell and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky; their collaboration produces a hysterically pretentious and ludicrously contrived hoax which is apparently cleaning up in its opening run in New York. Vel, vat haf ve heere? (In fairness, the Viennese psychiatrist is probably the only cliche this film avoids...