Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Lili Smith, London's favorite dance-hall entertainer, is the seductive idol of the British soldiers on leave from World War I. Secretly, she is a German spy named Schmidt. She flirts across the movie screen in sheer tights and ruffles, a rose between her teeth, gaiety masking her embittered spirit. The role seems precisely tailored for Dietrich. Instead it will be played by Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews has in fact gone the English dance-hall route before-and flopped miserably-in one of Hollywood's most expensive bombs. a multimillion-dollar loser called Star. On looks, anyway...
Mitchell finds Nixon using him as a sounding board in making key decisions of politics and program; Kissinger virtually monopolizes the President's ear on foreign policy. Mitchell and Kissinger are envied and resented for their unrivaled influence. The appointed palace guards, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, screen nearly every person admitted to the President's lair and practically every piece of paper that reaches his desk or briefcase. They stir enmity because, their antagonists argue, the pair shuts him off from access to uncongenial views and even from members of his Cabinet...
That is his style, and his presidency will ultimately be judged by what he achieved or failed to achieve, not by the way he went about it. Moreover, a President cannot deal with every question personally, and so he must have a staff to screen people and problems he is to confront; thus it becomes a mark of skill in Government for anyone to discover a way to get presidential attention. Says Jerome Rosow, an Assistant Secretary of Labor: "If there is a palace guard, you have to learn to deal with it. That's just the way things...
There was an almost instant response. As Wilson glanced at the screen of a monitoring oscilloscope, he recalls, he saw "a bump that hadn't been there before." When the antenna was slightly moved, the bump disappeared. The scientists could scarcely believe their eyes. Though the equipment had just been switched on, it was already vigorously responding at 115 billion hertz-the fingerprint of carbon monoxide. The carbon-monoxide signals are, in fact, so strong, Jefferts says, that they almost "jump up and bite you." Any lingering doubts were totally dispelled in the next few nights. Shifting their telescope...
Although the film is weak at its base, its superstructure is dazzlingly handsome. There are satiric scenes that for wit and impact are unmatched since Richard Lester's Petulia. One group-therapy session in a swimming pool, for example, does expertly in a fleeting interlude of screen time what the first minutes of Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice tried and failed to achieve. Leo and Margaret are jumping nude up and down in a swimming pool, surrounded by dozens of other patients, all under the supervision of a benign instructor, who keeps chanting, "Reach out, stretch...