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...undergraduate degree, and granted special permission for him to enter the doctoral program. Were CCNY to act sensibly and mete out a minor punishment to Horovitz, the whole incident would disappear; as it is, the stain on Horovitz is being transferred to City College. That university is out of whack with itself...
...meeting their demands for a 28-per-cent wage increase. Before going on strike the miners pressed their demands by refusing to work overtime. That job action reduced production in the nationalized coal industry by nearly 40 per cent, throwing an already faltering economy even further out of whack. Heath's enactment of a three-day work week was more a reaction to the miners' slowdown than to anything else...
...poor factory worker he plays, after months on the assembly line, and after confronting the hilarious monster of the Automatic Eating Machine, finally goes loony, throws every switch in the factory out of whack, and goes on an oil-spurting spree. As Chaplin gets himself mistakenly arrested as a communist leader (and that one has to be seen to be believed), a poor street gamine (Paulette Goddarde) steals bananas. On the dry hot streets of Los Angeles in the middle of the depression the gamine is nearly arrested, until the gallant Chaplin recently released from jail, takes the rap. Chaplin...
...bunny scent. A girl put her pet on springs that jiggled its feet. A device that pulled dogs along was propelled by an ingenious power plant: the energy was created by the dog's barking into a speaking tube. Only one machine threatened punishment, using a hammer to whack a dog on the back if it refused to exercise...
...elaborations and improvisations. Sound-track impressions boom the eardrums with rock, shrieks, sirens, hopped-up choppers and gunfire. The dialogue between black characters stays so close to ghetto speech that white sound men advised Van Peebles to redo it; they thought his recorder must have been out of whack. One speech is delivered partly from the toilet, with appropriate break-wind accompaniment...