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...movement--its means of wish-fulfillment fantasizing, its rhythms. But one aspect of his method that can be identified is his use of close-ups. Objects inherently grotesque, though subdued by their everyday contexts, often fill his Panavision screen: fishguts on a butcher's block, kidneys plopping into a cat's dish. The viewer perceives that what might have been a "shock image" in Polanski or Hitchcock has not been used as such, but has been subdued by its context, as such things are in our everyday consciousness...
...Rhenish and Roman Catholic German's lifelong distaste for Berliners and Prussians. His weak lungs also kept him out of World War I; by 1917, he was Lord Mayor of Cologne, his birthplace. That year plastic surgery following an auto accident froze his facial features into the cat's mask the world was later to know so well...
...career: being himself. Schultz believes that real eating-talking-sleeping life has all "the pathos, humor and drama of the theater." To prove it, three weeks ago he and his sons Lyle, 4, and Elan, 5, a jazz musician named Marzette, 28, and three dogs and a cat set up house on the stage of the Headquarters theater in Manhattan's East Village-and invited the public to drop in at any hour of the day or night (tickets...
...Chamberlain's programmatic remarks seemed to me condescending, his manner unfeeling; I was convinced that he knew nothing about the subject: even his bothering to review such a book showed a highly abstract mind. I was youth--out of college for the year, useless, driven as an alley cat. What the hell does this fellow know about it anyway...
...officials, Michael Brooks as the mayor, Trevor Waters as the parson and John Gilmore as the constable should spend more time bullying an less luxuriating in the rich sound of their English accents. The three of them haven't got the arrogance of an old man whistling after a cat at night...