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...Point Blank is one of those forgettable movies in which only the settings change-the violence remains the same. The first setting is deserted Alcatraz, where Lee Marvin lies in a cell, badly wounded and flashbacking like mad. Lee, his wife (Sharon Acker) and a friend have just hijacked a helicopter load of cash that some criminal syndicate had tried to deliver, for obscure reasons, to the abandoned prison. Friend and wife, however, have cut Lee out of the deal by pumping him full of lead -but not enough lead, apparently, to interfere with his swimming to the mainland...
...chart - prepared from photographs shot by Orbiters 1, 2, 3 and 4 and by Russia's Zond 3 - showed several blank spaces and poor definition in the area covered by Zond 3 (blurred vertical strip at middle right on chart...
...vividly painted cartons were collages of photographs from Viet Nam, Newark and Vogue, bits of magazine ads, scribbled quotations from John Kennedy, Albert Camus and Beatle John Lennon. In effect, the exhibit - entitled "Survival with Style"- was a dramatic plea to man's conscience. A message in blank verse invited viewers to mull over the maze and "find alternatives to war to poverty to pain...
...Sister Corita's serigraphs use kaleidoscopic excerpts from advertising slogans blown up and tossed across the pages, often upside down, sideways or in mirror images. Accompanying them are quotations that range from Hasidic folk tales to Marshall McLuhan, all tied together with Sister Corita's own blank verse celebrating love, peace, action-and God. In this context the reader suddenly discovers that Chevrolet's slogan, "See the man who can save you the most," may have religious overtones. So can "Wonder helps build strong bodies 12 ways," improvising on the Wonder Bread slogan...
...last week, when diplomats from the two countries agreed upon a draft treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the general enthusiasm was understandable. After five years of dickering, it was all too easy to overlook the fact that one vital article of the treaty had been left blank. The negotiators in Geneva simply agreed to resume arguing later about the inspection procedures that all along have been one of the major stumbling blocks...