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...BREAKER MORANT...
...Australia has discovered film, it has rediscovered its own past. Some of the finest Australian films (Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, Breaker Morant) are set on the cusp of the 20th century, when the country was approaching federation and its citizens were struggling for an identity apart from that of decorous Mother England. This was a country in adolescent turbulence. No wonder, then, that so many Australian novels (and now films) are tales of young nonconformists seeking liberation through maturity or anarchy. In The Getting of Wisdom, a bright upstart triumphs over the snobbery of her classmates...
...meet for the crown. But it was Goolagong, playing tennis as though it were a sonata, not a sport, who carried the day. She won the first set 6 games to 1, then held off a gritty comeback by Evert Lloyd to win the final set in a tie breaker...
...After sleepwalking through the first set and losing 6-1, Borg won the next two and in the fourth set was only a point away from winning the championship no fewer than seven times. But McEnroe held him off again and again, finally winning an extraordinary 18-16 tie breaker that will be remembered as one of the most dramatic in Wimbledon history. In the fifth set neither man was able to break the other's serve until Borg did so in the 14th game for an 8-6 victory and a record fifth consecutive Wimbledon title...
...number six, Alan Beren pulled out a crucial tie-breaker to defeat Keith Rudman, 6-4, 7-6 (5-4). With the tournament score at 4-2, Kirsch and Turner "played very good doubles and clinched the match easily in 45 minutes," captain Bob Horne said yesterday...