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...body of a 50-year-old. Or even less. Viewers can judge for themselves next fall when they watch Holden in The Earthling, a tale about an Australian bat-around-the-world who finally comes home to die. He stops along the way to take a beefcake bath-or in Holden's case, a sirloin splash-in an Australian stream. He also encounters Child Star Ricky Schroder (The Champ), who at nine has just lost mother and father in an automobile crash. What happens next is tearjerking. It also includes kangaroos and wallabies...
...this stems from an obsession with ANALYSIS which is supposed to be the essence of good historical studies. As a result narrative history is simply not taught. In this case the baby has been thrown out and the bath-water kept! The understanding of history does not mean learning a bucketful of scholarly interpretations of "Feudalism" or 'Development.' It requires a basic knowledge of what happened when and where, and this can only come from a sustained study of the sources. Doubtless the latest social scientific wizardry is more exciting than biographic of popes or medieval chronicles, but without...
...equality'' must be applied to urgent social and moral dilemmas-abortion, the death penalty, obscenity, busing, reverse discrimination. The conferences provide a relentless test of conviction and reason; shallowness and bluffing are not long concealed. ''It is like being naked in a steam bath,'' Justice Felix Frankfurter once remarked. ''You are totally exposed...
...only his mother (Gloria Grahame), a withered vamp whose insulation has started to fray, and who flirts coyly with suicide whenever she feels that not enough attention is being paid to her, calling to say that she has taken sleeping pills again and is sinking in the bath water. No matter. The logic of Charles' obsession tells him that the next call will be from Laura, who will say to him that the sky is blue and birds are singing...
...didn't start the riots of 1976. It was the police that rioted, not the people. The police were nervous, jumpy, they turned a tense situation into a blood bath. This year the police were more experienced so there were no riots...