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...language takes over the firm, juggling its personnel so thoroughly that Gross finds himself demoted to staff watcher, for which he must monitor peepholes into five offices at once. Eventually he persuades a secretary to make an unauthorized translation of his memo-which turns out to be a document praising his opposition to the spread of Ptydepe. Restored at last to his post as director, Gross has been so depersonalized himself that when the secretary appeals to him to keep her from being fired for translating his memo, he cannot even put in a good word for her. It might...
...from the hobble skirt? In the time from flapper fringe to miniskirt, legs may indeed have lost their shock value, but a well-turned leg still turns heads. What short skirts have done for the leg man, see-through blouses may yet do for the more high-minded girl watcher...
...Since January, the self-described hawks have increased from 56%, to 61%, and the doves have decreased from 28%, to 23%. The latest Louis Harris survey found that those expressing general support for the war have increased from 61% in December, to 74%. Yet even Johnson, the indefatigable poll watcher, insisted last week that "you can't run a war by polls...
...only problem which has bothered the City for longer than the proposed Inner Belt highway. The City has fought the Belt ever since it was first designed in 1948. during those 20 years, the road has been subjected to so many studies that all but the most avid Belt-watcher have lost count...
...with reality. With European detachment, Preminger stands outside the tense and ugly world, watching with carful scrutiny without allowing his camera to enter and take part. In Preminger's films, there are no point-of-view shots; Preminger never cuts to what a character sees, instead putting both the watcher and the watched in the same shot. Though Preminger tends to ignore the dramatic world of his films, his camera defines the personality and function of a character by the amount of space placed around him, and by the way he is moved with relation to the frame. The more...