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...warm and well played village comedy. Tono Brtko (Josef Króner) is a simple and straightforward carpenter in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia who hates his brother-in-law, the local Gauleiter, but accepts a supposedly lucrative plum from him-appointment as "Aryan manager" and ideological overseer of a Jewish button shop...
...Eastern world it is explodin', Violence flarin', and bullets loadin'. You're old enough to kill, but not for votin' . . . If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away. There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave . . . Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction...
...seen as a brooding nymph in The Red Desert. In a new British production, Vitti is Modesty Blaise of London comic-strip fame. Modesty has retired at 26 from the international smuggling racket to become a sort of freelance girl Friday for the British Secret Service. Armed with blouse-button bombs, cigarette lighters that turn out to be miniature flame throwers, and lipstick that untelescopes into a deadly arrow, Modesty outbombs and outshoots everybody, including that archcriminal Dirk Bogarde...
...back at it again. Only now she does it by quipping instead of stripping on a show taped by KGO-TV in San Francisco. The censors plague her still, but now it is her tongue they worry about. Every time they think it has turned blue they press a button, and what she has actually said comes out "blip...
...Survey Research Center. Whether they will remain high will hinge largely on how well the '66 styling goes over. Unwilling to tamper with styling that has worked so well, Detroit plans no big dramatic changes. The trends will be to even more luxury options (example: a push-button system that enables the driver to set his car to a given speed and cruise without touching the accelerator), more powerful engines, longer bodies, less chrome. One of the major changes will occur in Ford's Falcon, which has borrowed liberally from the successful Mustang, with a short rear deck...