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When the bad guys show up, things really fly to pieces. A grubby band of desperadoes led by Bruce Dern (in a splendidly bravura performance) want in on the drive and the profits. Duke shoos them off, but they skulk along behind the cows, waiting to make a move. When they do, Dern and Duke mix it up, and Dern finally gets the best of it. Aided by Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne), the kids vow vengeance...
...Muskie; both Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp and Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III are expected by Muskie strategists to endorse their man soon. Muskie now stands about where John Kennedy did in 1959-beginning to pull ahead of his rivals but still not a sure thing. Muskie lacks the Kennedy bravura; sometimes criticized for indecisiveness, he has not yet demonstrated that he could galvanize the country. On the other hand, he has an advantage that J.F.K. did not: Roman Catholicism is no longer a serious handicap for a presidential candidate. So far, he has not made the kind of fatal mistake...
...better to write them than Paganini himself? He turned out a famous Witches' Dance, a series of caprices, sonatas, quartets, variations and five full-scale violin concertos. The pieces hardly challenged Beethoven's, but they were competently constructed crowd pleasers that bristled with the kind of technical bravura in which Paganini gloried-vertiginous runs and arpeggios, contrapuntal double and even triple stops, a fuller range than any violinist had ever attempted of harmonic overtones (the higher-pitched vibrations of given notes, produced by depressing the strings only slightly...
...mother's heart, but problem is it doesn't really work. The Polinsky brothers' two-man theater is really nothing more than a fancy gimmick. Real theatrical challenges are either not perceived or else simply ignored in an effort to arrive at a simple-minded kind of two-bit bravura...
There had been two previous transplants of a human heart with both lungs attached, all in the U.S., and none of the recipients lived more than a few days. But last week, in Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed this feat of surgical bravura. The man who first transplanted a human heart has lost none of his daring or his ability to provoke controversy...