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...troops. The 'copter groups flopped in behind theoretical enemy lines, disgorged their cargoes and were gone in less than 20 seconds. Many a Marine visualizes the day when a whole invading force might be shuttled ashore from scattered carriers, taking an enemy by surprise and eliminating the great clutter of small craft which is so vulnerable to atomic blast...
These may be prosaic answers to a dramatic problem, but little else is possible without making Memorial Drive traffic more of a dilemma than it is already. Although a few signs and a few posts will clutter up the Houses' classic view of the Charles, they are far better decorations than pieces of glass, fender, and smashed tree that will otherwise continue to festoon the vista every week...
Director Bill Hobin uses cranes, dollies and ramps to move his five cameras up & down, back & forth, this way & that. A wide-angle lens can catch as many as ten dancers and eight singers in a single shot without having them trample each other or clutter the screen; the zoom-type lens moves from long shots to close-ups with a breathtaking rush and without loss of focus. With process shots (filmed backgrounds), Hobin can shoot scenes that look like Paris, Tokyo, the Taj Mahal or a Venetian canal...
...Dali renounced his old Freudian nightmares, and hit the sawdust trail toward what he calls "true artistic classicism." One of his first big efforts in this direction was his Port Lligat Madonna (TIME, April 17, 1950), but in shifting from the subconscious to the serene, he tripped over a clutter of surrealist paraphernalia and fell flat...
...posters slam the eye more often than they soothe it, and clutter up many a highway to the point where tourists are surprised to find the cows and trees behind the billboards. That posters are not necessarily obnoxious is amply proved by a traveling exhibition of European examples (opposite) currently installed at Chicago's Lakeside Press Galleries. They are mostly Swiss posters-because the Swiss not only produce the world's best, but know what to do with them...