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...Bravo to Stefan Kanfer for his Essay on "The Decline and Fill of the American Hot Dog" [Oct. 2]. His invigorating article on those insalubrious "finger-shaped monsters" has certainly deadened my desire for them. I will never again eat another...
...steal, to live by his wits and, those failing, his gun. His principles are most frequently mocked and compromised by the gang leader (Jeff Bridges), with whom he strikes up the kind of mutually antagonistic friendship often found in such films of Howard Hawks as Rio Bravo and Red River. Each member of the gang has sworn to share with the others, but as his companions scrounge for a meal-and sometimes get killed in the process-Drew keeps $100 stashed in his shoe. The bankroll makes his lofty moral principles a great deal easier to hold...
BRATTLE THEATER. The Searchers, one of John Ford's finest westerns, is doubled with Howard Hawk's Rio Bravo, which some love, others hate, and I haven't seen. Ford plays at 5:30 and 9:50, and 7:30 with a weekend matinee...
...Spassky to take the unprotected attacking piece. If he had, Fischer would have had a two-move checkmate. Even if he moved elsewhere, Spassky's position was hopeless. After studying the board for a full minute, he stood up and shook Fischer's hand. The audience applauded and cried, "Bravo Bobby! Bravo Bobby...
...demonstrated the thesis that competent people get promoted until they reach a job they can not do, and then they stay there, victims of "the final placement syndrome." Or, as Dr. Peter formally phrased his principle, "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Bravo, Dr. Peter...