Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something for everyone here. Camera-conscious film wonks, alert to Cinema History, will notice something new in this use of Cinemascope: it seems uniquely uninfluenced by Hollywood wide-screen, model of New Wave Americanophiles like Chabrol and Vadim. Bunuel's vision of provincial France seems rather an extension into modern times of the native Renoir tradition of lighting and composition...
...three-year mastery over Jay Westcott by blitzing the Yale captain with powerful ground strokes for a 6-2, 6-3 win. Friedman, in what turned out to be the longest singles match of the afternoon, turned back the big game of Eli sophomore Bob McCallum by the deceptively wide margin...
Polls show that a wide majority of the public, including Catholics, now favor public assistance for birth-control programs. Prodded by President Johnson and his aggressive Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Government has neatly reversed its previous hands-off attitude; in the last year alone, HEW has doubled its staff engaged in population work. The Office of Economic Opportunity, though still lagging behind HEW, also liberalized its birth-control guidelines recently; more than 30 state governments (v. 13 in 1964) are now actively engaged in giving birth-control...
...newsmagazines are catching on fast in most European countries, but not in England, where several newspapers are not only national, but also have big Sunday supplements of wide scope covering all subjects. European newsmagazines are often criticized for lack of depth and commitment and for carrying too much advertising. "But now the ideological wars are over," says Servan-Schreiber. "Europe has been depoliticized. Opinion not founded on fact has no impact any more. Ours is the new journalism...
...Cheetah's $100,000 tether along with 49% owned by Borden Stevenson, middle son of Adlai. Coquelin knew his clientele. A rush-hour subway crowd pushed, shoved, stalked and stared at some 200 models dressed in the latest mod fashions. Men in flow ered shirts and wide ties squired girls wearing everything from Pucci prints and Paco Rabanne disks to weirdies from London's Carnaby Street and vinyl suits from Manhattan's Third Avenue boutiques. After watching the kinky Whip Dancers brought up from Andy Warhol's new discotheque, self-conscious squares rushed to get into...