Word: wyler
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Borden's has diversified most widely in foods. In the 1950s, it moved eagerly into convenience foods, putting the Borden label on new products (gelatin salads, packaged potatoes, refrigerated biscuits) and acquiring such smaller firms as Snow's (clams), Wyler's (dehydrated soups and vegetables). Brandywine (mushrooms) and ReaLemon (juices and concentrates). It is now the nation's fifth largest food company. To cut costs, it is building 14 to 18 automated warehouses to replace its 136 small warehouses around the U.S.. has so automated its plants that one man and three machines...
...Children's Hour (Mirisch; United Artists) is Director William Wyler's second try at doing right by Lillian Hellman's 1934 stage melodrama, whose burden was that lesbianism may be regrettable, but a nasty, spying child is simply intolerable. In 1936, when the first screenplay was made, Hollywood shied away from abnormal psychology. Wyler dropped the tainted Hellman title (the picture was renamed These Three) and changed an irregular triangle (young doctor loves girl teacher, and so does another girl teacher) into a right triangle (the two girl teachers love the young doctor...
...much of the film is directed-somewhat surprisingly, considering Wyler's reputation-on the assumption that the perceptive level of the audience is that of a roomful of producers' relatives. Audrey Hepburn, the other teacher, gives her standard, frail, indomitable characterization, which is to say that her eyes water constantly (frailty) and her chin is forever cantilevered forward (indomitability). Little is asked of James (Maverick) Garner, and he gives...
...commotion begins when a sulky, clever little girl (Karen Balkin), brooding over a punishment, hits intuitively on a devastating lie: she tells her grandmother that she has seen the two teachers embracing. Here Wyler's notion of registering childish malevolence is to have twelve-year-old Actress Balkin roll her eyes, scowl, bare her teeth and jerk her head back like a duchess regarding a spider, every time she is on-camera. To make sure no one misses the significance of those moments when the girl is hatching her nastiness, Wyler underscores with vibrant significance music. Composer Alex North...
...meeting. Mrs. Ruth Wyler Messinger '62, author of the new constitution, defended the decision to de-emphasize the role of Board of Hall in governing the College. "One of SGA's big problems has been the duplication of its work by small autonomous bodies. We want to make the RGA Council the sole legislating body and see if it can function effectively...