Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the darker regions. The Third Man is mostly about Vienna, about a postwar Vienna that has been bornbed, divided into zones of occupation, and infected (as it is still) with espionage agents and black marketeers. In spite of things that endure, like highly stylized theatre and the ferris wheel in the Prater (both of which appear, naturally, in the film), it is above all the city of which people say: it is not what it used to be. It is, as innumerable shots of blasted buildings and crafty workmen constantly suggest, very much what George Orwell meant when...
...plot, acting, and photography, and because there must be few who have not seen it at least twice, let me say dogmatically that they have rarely been matched since the film was made. Welles, in particular, who appears only briefly to gaze from the ferris wheel and to run through the sewers in the last and most climactic chase, performs as the smoothest and most attractive monster conceivable. He and a memorable zither tune will ensure that The Third Man continues to reappear...
Famous for his blazing starts, Robinson outdid himself last week. In his semifinal heat, he stomped so hard on the accelerator that his super-powered racer reared like a rodeo bronc into a disastrous "wheel stand," thus costing him a few precious fractions of a second that he was unable to make up. The new "Top Eliminator": California's Jim Nelson, 34, a mechanic who has been racing dragsters since 1948, has never before won a major competition. Nelson's winning time for the quarter-mile sprint was 8.7 sec., and his gold-and-red, Dodge-powered Dragmaster...
TURN OF THE WHEEL, by Roger Vailland (179 pp.; Knopf; $3.50). Milan, an interior decorator, and his wife Roberte, come from Paris to live in the country, squabble, drink, and toss hard truths at one another like bottles of vitriol. Why? Because, says Milan, "two lovers who love one another passionately can only detest each other, as the drunk detests liquor, the addict dope, the gambler cards, and the invert homosexuals." Héléne, a nubile village schoolteacher, is fascinated by the couple's rantings about their free-loving and free-hating past. "Take...
...collision course with a ferryboat. Captain Foglemayer sticks his head out of the window and hollers: "Get outa da way, ya punk!'' When he loses his broad overboard, he squalls: "Make a U-turn!" When he gets caught in a passing hurricane, he lashes himself to the wheel-which proceeds to spin like...