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...take on a special quality when a woman addresses them. Discussions of arms agreements and foreign policy may also sound different from a mother's point of view. When her turn came to speak last Thursday, Ferraro sounded like any politician, male or female, touching the right chords ("Straight-forward, solid Americans") and the right bases ("My good friend, Charlie Rangel, the Congressman from Harlem"). That may change, to her surprise, as she is confronted by questions and concerns that are not conventionally political...
...THIS were not enough, Gance is determined to break new ground in the use of the camera. It is almost inconceivable that any 1927 film could achieve as much as Napoleon does. Gance seems unwilling to let any straight-forward shot stand by itself. He superimposes endlessly. He splices flashbacks that are projected with such rapidity that one cannot recognize everything, and to watch becomes hypnotic. Other times, the image divides itself, first into four, then into nine identical pictures. When Napoleon is thrown from wave to wave in the dingy, a shot of the National Convention suddenly appears...
...quotes Clausewitz, is both unpredictable and filled with "friction"--everything from bad weather to equipment breakdowns. As a result, planners should stress adaptability. Instead, the "prevailing ethic of modern American defense...is the managerial view of the military," which translates to "the desire to make defense a more straight-forward and efficient business, by applying the disciplines of economics and management to military plans...
...straight-forward, honest and active person and I am delighted that I finally persuaded him to take the position," Raoul Bott, Graustein Professor of Mathematics and Master of Dunster House, said yesterday...
...victim of some apocalyptic atomic blast, Moore's J.B. unleashes a 50-megaton cry to God for justice, for a reason. He cannot accept the logic of the grinning, trembling priest--David Van Taylor shines as this Father O'Malley through Stanley Kubrick's lens. The priest offers a straight-forward answer to J.B.'s questions and MacLeish's Question: "Your sin is simple. You were born...