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Loyalty Checkups. What interests Solberg most are the interlocked ironies of cause and unexpected effect, so maddening for a people encouraged to believe that brave acts and sensible policies guarantee happy endings. As everyone is now aware, all those freestanding, suburban one-family houses (an American dream come true) were livable only if the owners had cars, and so helped bring on nightmarish traffic jams, the decay of the cities and the decline of public transport. Solberg also considers such a thing as the G.I. Bill a marvelous benefit to youth and society...
...Fermin in Pamplona. Every July a good part of Spain converges on this northern city for a seven-day orgy of wine-drinking and bull-fighting. The bulls selected for each day's contest are run through the city's streets, on the heels of all those brave (and crazy) enough to risk their necks for the honor of being able to boast of "running the bulls" at Pamplona. After the day's fights the cafes are jammed as raised wineskins squirt forth their hurtling jet of cheap vino. The bands in the central square launch into native tunes that...
...physical torture as well as 18 months in solitary, he acted doped, hoping the world would understand that his statement was coerced even if it misunderstood the method of coercion. The seemingly pitiable spectacle he made of himself was thus actually an extraordinarily effective act of resistance by a brave...
...ants, Paramount will present The Haephestus Plague, a double whammy in which another earthquake disgorges thousands of carbon-munching giant cockroaches from the bowels of the earth. "We are breeding and training real South American bugs," says Producer William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen-Castle is planning a floor-mounted windshield-wiper device that will softly brush across moviegoers' feet and ankles at crucial moments...
Cook] raised old England's flag, The standard of the brave; With all her faults we love her still "Britannia rules the wave...