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...Platinum Yardstick. Such objections are trifling, and most audiences will not make them. But people who have seen the film before-and some people say they have seen it more than 60 times-may have a more serious complaint: Why has the print been darkened? Every color has been tainted with sepia, and in some scenes the effect is downright morbid. Is this somebody's idea of what DeMille once described as "Rembrandt lighting?" Hardly. The Technicolor elements have aged; their chemical colors have "wandered," as the experts...
...sent scores skyrocketing, until it now requires an average of 122 points to win an N.B.A. game. As the game has changed, so have the players. Teams once depended on three or four scorers; now every man on the floor can go over 20 points a game, the old yardstick of success. Says Los Angeles Lakers' Coach Fred Schaus, himself a pro only a few years ago: "It's incredible, but it's true that today's N.B.A. man, an average man, would have been a great star six, seven or eight years ago. Maybe...
...power to shock may be taken as a yardstick of fiction, John Updike, 28, has written one of the year's most important novels. Like last year's Poorhouse Fair, his new book is bitterly anchored in Thoreau's belief that most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but in this story, the restraining dam breaks to let loose such relentless despair as is seldom found in U.S. writing...
Seeking a better yardstick than the IQ, Getzels and Jackson tried asking children to glance at "stimulus" pictures and write an appropriate story. Recently, the pair gave their "test" to 500 teenagers, including both high-IQ students and youngsters who appeared highly creative...
...fear of adverse individual cost-rate decisions, saw some virtue in the new system. It will open up the FPC pipeline of rate requests, thus will put more natural gas in the pipelines on the way to the consumer. Its biggest virtue is that in abandoning the cost-plus yardstick, the FPC's new rules will no longer subsidize the inefficient gas producer, penalize the most efficient...