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...screen actor to follow, in certain ways closed to the stage actor, the approach to acting developed by Stanislavsky. The screen actor can concentrate on developing his acting image, without worrying about the stage problem that editing of camera sequences eliminates. (It is interesting to note that a frequent complaint about American Method actors is that they act on stage as if they were performing before a camera: that is, they mumble in a way inaudible to the back rows. I don't think this is a fault more common among Method actors than any others, but if the complaint...
...York Daily News echoed the complaint, but partly blamed the politicians themselves, who constantly played up to TV. It probably was not worth it, the News suggested. Between 14 and 15 million people watched each convention, an impressive audience for TV, but small compared with "U.S. newspapers' total circulation, which at last report was 58 million copies and still going...
...only thing that will be accomplished will be the achievement of animosity and profound dislike on the part of our people. We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us." Communist Sobolev got the point. Ecuador and Argentina sponsored a joint resolution to refer Roa's complaint to the regional Organization of American States. Instead of vetoing the proposal as he had threatened to do, the Russian abstained...
After getting her report card, Charlene barricaded herself in the family bomb shelter that her housepainter father recently built off the cellar. Last week she emerged with a bomb for the school board -a scathing letter of protest, which the Manchester Evening Herald promptly published. Her complaint: that "in the jet age, the space age, the atomic age and the age of pushbutton warfare,'' Manchester High makes no distinction between brains and brawn. "Inexcusable stupidity," wrote she. "I fully expect upon returning to M.H.S. to be faced with a course in stone axes and spears, in which...
...promote its slogan "Where there's life . . . there's Bud," the Anheuser-Busch brewery has spent $40 million. Last week it filed suit against the Chemical Corp. of America, which makes a floor wax that kills bugs too. Its complaint: the chemical company's new slogan-"Where there's life, there's bugs"-tended to "disparage" Budweiser. Chemical Corp. blandly rejoined that its inspiration was really 18th century English Poet John Gay, who wrote: "While there is life there's hope, he cried." The court, in a temporary injunction, told Chemical Corp. to apply...