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...Last of the Blue Devils, first-time director Bruce Ricker's movie about Kansas City jazzmen, gets around these limitations of jazz cinematography better than any film I have seen. Jazz purists may balk at the liberties Ricker has taken--solos are cropped from longer performances, music is cut up and excerpted, "vintage" Kansas City clips are few and far between--but they can't argue with his results. The entire film rushes along to Kansas City 4/4 time; a spare 91 minutes long, The Last of the Blue Devils is one sweet breath of Kansas City air, heady enough...
...this point the discussion is totally theoretical. No draft boards exist; the Selective Service system is only now drawing up guidelines for choosing members. Congress will not balk at requiring men to register. But Speaker Tip O'Neill reports that the House is "overwhelmingly" opposed to registering women, despite Carter's assurance that he would never permit "the use of women in combat." Signing up men only, if that is what emerges from Congress, would almost certainly be challenged in the courts on the ground that it would be discriminatory...
While Congress grows wary, bankers and workers may balk...
When a herd of stampeding caribou reaches an oil pipeline in the Northwest Territories, the animals balk at the one-foot obstacle. Some run for miles parallel to the pipeline, others stands still, perplexed. Those who refuse to step over the pipeline are easy prey for the wolves; those not fortunate enough to be killed quickly, wither away until they are just carcasses. In the snow...
...that matter, most students at Harvard are probably mavericks. The kind of discipline found at many church colleges and certainly at the military academy died decades ago, if it ever existed here. But while Harvard students might well balk at having to live under extensive parietals, students at more regulated colleges are satisfied with the rules...