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Principal innovations: 1) translations were cut as close to the English sound pattern as possible; 2) translating actors were made to memorize lines, really play the parts themselves; 3) corrections were made by expert sound technicians...
...modern writers, working usually in muted tones, off-colors, remotely gross or secret moods. At her best she is delicate, witty, adroit, a genuine craftsman in the sense that Virginia Woolf was a genuine craftsman. At worst she is simply an unsuccessful craftsman-wasting her skill on an obvious pattern, drawing her lines so fine that a reader is not sure what she is trying to show...
Diametrically opposed to this is the "realist's" pattern of thought. Dogging the footsteps of Winston Churchill, he calls for an Anglo-American alliance which would freeze the balance of power within the United Nations. He calmly accepts a policy which would soon reduce the machinery of the United Nations to an instrument for imposition of Anglo-American will...
...just being funny, returned to his sharp satire on Gould, Tracy & Co. It began in 600-odd newspapers as suddenly as his casual lampooning of Orson Welles, Gone Wif the Wind, Frank Sinatra, Sewell Avery and Drew Pearson, with a scrawled appeal from hillbilly Li'l Abner Yokum (pattern: early Henry Fonda) to Cartoonist "Lester Gooch...
...weapon. The Argentines were now ready to spend from $1 to $1½ billion to bring their war-worn economy up to date, and make it more self-sufficient. Peró wants machine tools, trucks, oilfield equipment, and engineering savvy to advance Argentina in the familiar pattern of totalitarian autarkic...