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...times to take over his films. Spider's Stratagem is probably the worst offender in this area, since Borges' story needed no extra emphasis at all. But there Bertolucci was merely trying too hard to make his points. In Partner he molds the film to suit his visual whim. A revolving chandelier is the most striking feature in a murder scene. Other important scenes center around pointed references to great films of the past. At other times Bertolucci emphasizes gimmicks of sound and shadow. Many, perhaps most, of the tricks are clever, even bold, but they rarely contribute...
...every mannequin maker caters to the whim of such major high-fashion stores. Others sell solely to chain stores
Savalas' career as an actor began when he was 37, and more or less by accident. An agent asked him to find someone who could play an East European judge on television's Armstrong Circle Theater. Although totally untrained, he auditioned for the part on a whim and got it. "I became an actor out of curiosity," he said during a Kojak shooting break last week in Hollywood, "and at first my career was fascinating because the parts were varied." Savalas won an Academy nomination for playing a convict colleague of Burt Lancaster...
...speed rice exports. And in the only industrial enterprise of any significance--the rubber plantations in the South--conditions were even worse than in the rural villages. The workers there were slaves: they worked long hours, were fed next to nothing, and could be murdered by guards at whim. Of 45,000 people who worked in one plantation between 1917 and 1944, 12,000 died there. Life was brutal in the village, too, but at least it was a familiar harshness...
...productivity has sacrificed not only the small and medium-sized farmer but the small and medium-sized businessman and industrialist--all of whom are Brazilians--to the advantage of multinational corporations...Our greatest problem is the fact that a certain few interests in Brazil--they depend on the whim of a mere handful of administrators--have become too big for our institutions to handle. The classical corrective steps that other countries use to impose compliance with their financial and economic policy, in Brazil just do not seem to protect the public interest...