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Unfortunately that is but the talk of her better moods. Most of the time she's a torn woman--torn between her fantasies and fears, between claiming her right to be selfish and guilt for asserting the claim, between the sexual dependence she was educated to need and the independence feminism declared as her right. Remember that Erica writes large; she's nothing if she's not subtle, and she hits you with her contradictoriness like a grease...
Vigorous Egos. On occasion, the camera lets the speaker enlighten the audience at his own expense: Alfred Hitchcock's comparison of a murder in Torn Curtain with the holocaust of Auschwitz betrays a pompous misreading of history. Howard Hawks' decrying of self-consciousness is contradicted by the rigidities of Red River. For the most part, however, the directors are shown as canny and incorrodable professionals, sustained by vigorous memories and egos. Schickel makes no attempt to hide their flaws: Frank Capra often lurches from sentimentality to unabashed bathos; William Wellman, Raoul Walsh and Howard Hawks appear to have...
...long run, the steps that will have the greatest impact are those designed to put Arab money to work in the Arab world itself. One proposal by the Economic Council would create new investment laws to make it easier for oil money to flow into the war-torn economies of Egypt and Syria, as well as those poor countries, such as Yemen, that a State Department official describes as the "economic basket cases" of the Arab world. Among the beneficiaries would be Western companies, which would get a crack at contracts for steel mills, new refineries and pipelines that...
THURSDAY: Men Who Made Movies. PBS documentary series on producers and directors focuses tonight the great master, Hitchcock. The program concentrates on Hitchcock's terrify psychological method with clips for "Psycho," "Torn Curtain," "Shadow Doubt," "Frenzy," "North by Northwest and "Saboteur." CH.44 9 p.m. Color...
Contemporary industrial Japan is living testimony to this pattern. Japan's rise to world leadership in science and technology resulted directly from American reconstruction of the war-torn islands. The United States set out to build, in her own image, the enemy she had destroyed. And the indigenous population, embarrassed by its defeat, accepted with open arms the conqueror's values, priorities and social systems in return for capital and leadership...