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High and Low. Japan's Akira Kurosawa is an eclectic film genius who has borrowed plots from such classic sources as Shakespeare, Gorky and the Hollywood western. This time, he takes a routine American thriller by Ed McBain (pseudonym for Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle) and proves that he needs neither sex nor samurai to set the screen crackling with excitement. Basically hackneyed, and at times impausible, High and Low is a Kurosawa triumph of man over matter...
After last Saturday's Crimson victory over Cornell, coach John Yovicsin looked at the scores from other Ivy games posted on the blackboard in the locker room and frowned. "This is going to be a good year for ulcers," he said worriedly...
Rapid-American's boss is still a crafty operator who dazzles potential investors with complicated "chalk talks" in which he sketches his financial plans on a blackboard. He often puts off opponents during negotiations by conferring with his associates in Hebrew, likes to voice homey parables. He lives with his wife and three children in a lavish home on Long Island, where his special joys are a pump-powered waterfall and a library that contains more electronic gear than books. Despite the Lerner setback, Riklis last week hoped to raise some money by contracting to sell...
Inside Voice. The program has much of the iron charm of the schoolmarm: "Tony, you want to remember your Romper Room manners, honey." It also has a celebrated prop, the Do Bee and Don't Bee blackboard, with two big wooden bees on the top and a fresh message each day on the slate, for example, Don't Bee a Street Player, Do Bee a Walk Player. ("Don't be a street walker," said one teacher, fluffing that one.) "Remember your Do Bee manners," says teacher to a Lilliputian loudmouth. "Use your inside voice." When the little...
...little girls wheeled out a big baby carriage and propped up a life-size doll. Then they dressed it up with all the grown-up ladies' clothes that Mama had stored away in the attic ages ago. One little boy skipped and jumped over to a big blackboard, chalked up those deathless words: MARY LOVES BILL...