Word: victimizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goldilocks the Victim. But even the present volume has its moments. With great glee, Miller lampoons the shock of the American tourist upon first encountering a Paris pissoir, adding: "I do not find it so strange that America placed a urinal in the center of the Paris exhibit at Chicago. I think it belongs there, and I think it a tribute which the French should appreciate. True, there was no need to fly the Tricolor above it." Oddly enough, the best piece is Miller's account of how, a little squiffed from cognac, he told the story of Goldilocks...
Director Jean Delannoy gets the most out of the devious alleys of Paris. The murder scenes are particularly effective, showing only the killer's hands nervously clutching his belt as he awaits his victim. Delannoy's avoidance of full-face close-up shots emphasizes the realistic tone of the film...
...complete and public destruction of its remaining integrity and sincerity, TV itself becomes the prime victim of its own cleverness...
...prosperity (320 new manufacturing companies in the last decade) and population boom (2,500-3,000 new inhabitants each month) to bring the bloom of art to the desert. Sparking the drive for a new museum were Local Banker Walter Bimson and Insurance Man George Bright, a recovered TB victim. Able, young Museum Director Forest Melick Hinkhouse, 34, soon had donations and art rolling in, ranging all the way from Van Dyck's Portrait of Charles I and Tintoretto's Portrait of a Nobleman to such modern works as Karel Appel's Portrait of Count Basie, John...
...fellow men. I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. The fact that I, too, was very much deceived cannot keep me from being the principal victim of that deception, because I was its principal symbol. There may be a kind of justice in that. I don't know. I do know, and I can say it proudly to this committee, that . . . I have taken a number of steps toward trying to make up for it. I have a long...