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Cornfield transforms this rather ordinary premise into a kind of vision of surreal violence. Working closely with Cinematographer Willi Kurant, he creates an autumnal landscape, heavy with fear, that is the stuff that nightmares are made of. From the subdued hues of a beach at dawn to the bleached neon whiteness of a bathroom, colors serve both to establish the mood of each scene and underscore the precisely orchestrated tension. The film's ambiguous ending, which puts a parenthesis of fantasy around the action, may at first seem facile. On reflection, however, the viewer finds that a whole...
Tractor Driving. David Webster had the more slowly developing type of seizure from unexplained brain damage, beginning when he was ten months old. He was a trial to his foster parents at Thornhill, outside Toronto. Says Mrs. Willi Smith: "He had to take about nine pills a day and he still had a couple of attacks just about every day. Somebody always had to be with him on the stairs for fear he would slip. They have these attacks if they have the slightest little scare-like slipping on a polished floor. His behavior wasn't all that good...
...words with him, and then hurried across the border into East Berlin. The man was not a defector or a spy. He was a high-ranking West German official who carried in his black briefcase an important letter from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger to Premier Willi Stoph of East Germany...
...Bonn has recently offered East Germany the prospect of more trade, large development loans and official talks at the sub-Cabinet level about easing travel and communications restrictions that now exist between the two countries. But it has not found the East German regime at all receptive. In fact, Willi Stoph recently replied to an earlier Kiesinger letter with a return missive demanding that Bonn renounce its "addiction" to neo-Nazism and militarism, abolish the capitalist system and spin off West Berlin as an independent "free city...
...ended in failure, and there is little reason to believe that the most recent effort will have any atypical success. Responding to an appeal from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's Communist party boss, proposed this week that Kiesinger meet with East German premier Willi Stoph to "negotiate an understanding between the two German states...