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...cool keen-eyed loner with a badge, sets himself against the epitome of evil, a psychopathic blackmailer who loves to murder. These two types have fought it out before, but never with such violent abandon. Dirty Harry may have its flaws with logic and over-simplification, but its sheer brute force kicks aside all discrepancies as it hurtles towards the final confrontation of primitive good and evil...
Striking Glimpse. The sudden interest in earthwork at Boeing has hardly taken the company out of the skies. On the contrary, Boeing engineers are producing ever more spectacular aircraft designs, including one for a twelve-engine "brute lifter" three times the size of the 747 jet that could haul, for example, 8,000 bbl. of crude petroleum. Recent successes in aerospace sales accounted for almost all of the company's nine-month earnings of $18.2 million this year, up nearly $1,000,000 over the same period in 1970. But Boeing's new outlook may well provide...
...helping publish the book. And not according to Izak Haber, who says he conceived the idea for Steal, did 90% of the research, wrote a 700-page manuscript that Abbie merely edited, and was promised 70% (but is getting only 22½%) of the royalties. "It was a brute-force rip-off," says Haber. Abbie, who decided not to appear at the "trial," denies it all. "An unmitigated lie," he countered. "I wrote the book, it's my style, and you name me one researcher that ever got 22½% of the royalties of a book." . . . The party...
Henrik Ibsen kept a live scorpion in an empty beer glass on his writing table. "From time to time the brute would ail; then I would throw in a piece of ripe fruit, on which it would cast itself in a rage and eject its poison; then it was well again." As usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported...
...more like that of a Maoist commune than of a school; managers will live together in barracks and intersperse their studies with marches and drills. A veteran of World War II service in the Japanese army, Nakauchi views business as combat: "We must inculcate in our managers a brute force for beating down all our rivals." But the round-faced, spectacled market magnate also has milder moods. While listening to the cash registers ring at a recent store opening, he forgot Mao long enough to echo unconsciously a far different cultural influence. "That," he said, "is the sweetest music this...