Word: impactions
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...Just before the Democratic Convention. Kennedy led 52 to 48. Last week's poll showed Nixon 50%, Kennedy 44%, undecided 6%. Nixon forces were concerned as well as pleased by the poll. They privately agreed with the Kennedy forces that it was probably taken too soon after the impact of Nixon's successful acceptance speech to be a steady indicator, and feared a downturn next time. Nixon forces are convinced that the "undecideds" are far more than 6%-perhaps 25% of the vote...
...began to have unhealthy thoughts as a result of my enthusiasm for jazz"), reported with horror fresh cases of foreign visitors "caught" spying "under cover of the mask of tourism." After years of pleas for greater cultural exchange with the West, the Kremlin now seemed alarmed over the impact that this summer's 15,000 U.S. and British tourists might be having on the mind of Soviet...
...Total Impact. Then comes a key technique: how to "organize" a book before reading it. For example, a reader outlines a textbook as if he were writing it, always knows what comes next. A novel is skimmed first to get the characters straight, then read, then reviewed. In this way, a Woodman can mop up Dr. Zhivago in one hour. "You don't see the words as words," says Teacher Wood. "The story rolls in to you. You get the total impact...
...over a period of weeks or months; dialogues may have been filmed with the actor's opposite absent; a single speech may consist of sections from several day's filming; the actor's performance may be placed in juxtaposition with other material, animate or inanimate, which will affect his impact in a way unknown to him at the time of performance. Much of Pudovkin is devoted to an examination of some ways of countering the fragmentation that filming, as a consequence of film's nature as an art, may cause. Longer rehearsal time, stock companies, close co-operation between director...
...different kind of impact on Congo affairs was being made by Madame Andrée Blouin, a handsome, 41-year-old mulatto of leftist inclinations, whose steel will and quick energy make her an invaluable political aide as well as round-the-clock companion to Lumumba's Deputy Premier, bespectacled Antoine Gizenga...