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...theater fits in with this new act-it-out, confrontation mode. But the excitement of real life does not transfer to the stage like a decalcomania. The endocrine charge is missing from Ranchman, leaving only some pleasant kids making a lot of sound and fury. To what avail...
Attempting to give his film some metaphorical importance, Director-Scenarist Marco Ferreri heavy-handedly presents the balloons as sexual, global and H-bomb symbols. To little avail. By the time Mario decides that his problem is insoluble and defenestrates himself in despair, the viewer will have long since discovered that he has been trapped inside a movie very like a balloon: filled with nothing but air and stretched to ultimate thinness...
Sentinel's system of radar tracking stations, long-range Spartan missiles and short-range Sprint rockets could indeed be of some avail against Chinese intercontinental missiles, although Peking has fallen a year behind schedule and is not expected to pose any threat until the mid-1970s . Against the real and present peril of 780 land-based Soviet missiles already pointed at U.S. targets, however, Sentinel will afford virtually no protection. Even a "thick" ABM shield, costing $40 billion instead of the projected $5.5 billion for the thin screen, would be hopelessly porous. Missile experts are quicker to devise...
...College in Newburgh N.Y., because of his strong antiwar stand. In opposing the Viet Nam wa, the brothers have openly violated the law out of conviction that other means of dissent have been exhausted. "I have tried all the conventional and legal forms of protest to little or no avail" says Philip, who argues that both Christ and Paul allowed the possibility of civil disobedience when man's law counters God's. The government, of course, could not agree. Priesthood or no, both the Justice Department and the State of Maryland indicted the unruly Berrigans on counts-including...
...delight of my fellows, he began to push my chair out the back door--to little avail. Next he picked up my briefcase and said, "Come with me." As he was nearing the back of the room I called, "I'll sue you if you lose that." In despair he waddled off to fetch the Lieutenant...