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...height of the controversy, someone noticed that the Union Jack was missing from the array of national flags flying above the Palais du Festival. Had the British decided to boycott the festival? No. A photographer had hauled down the flag and wrapped a naked starlet in it for a beach picture...
Ever since Mozart's Cosi Fan tutte was produced at Leverett House two years ago, musical theatre at Harvard has suffered from a bad case of escalation. L'Histoire du Soldat, Don Giovanni; and The Marriage of Figaro followed-in quick succession, and one shuddered to think where Harvard musicians would go from there...
...expectation of a strong year. General Motors gained $5.25 a share despite a 34.5% plunge in profits (see following story). Chrysler, which rose $2.63 two weeks ago in the face of a 71% profit dip, added another $1.75 last week to reach a 1967 peak of $44.25. When Du Pont reported a 24% profit decline two weeks ago, its shares jumped from $147 to $158.25; last week Du Pont traded as high as $167.50 before easing back to close...
Indeed, it seemed that stockholders were well educated as to the causes of the downtrend and ready to accept the worst. It therefore came as old hat that such past record setters as Du Pont, Caterpillar, Union Carbide, and Safeway Stores reported earnings slides. After six years of record-high dividend checks, stockholders appeared fat, friendly and eager to be entertained by the corporate hierarchy...
...primary goals was to break down the defensive barriers between the audience and the film-maker by manipulating audience emotions to involve them in the action. Having discovered that audiences laughed at the misfortunes and embarrassments of other people, Mack Sennett, and later Chaplin, revelled in low comedy. Cahiers du Cinema theorizes that Countess breaks the barrier between audience and film-maker through use of two extended bits of low comedy: a brilliantly executed seasickness sequence, and a running gag where Ogden, unable to send Natascha out of the bedroom, heightens the volume of the radio to drown...