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...least one quaint custom of British education has not changed since Tom Brown's Schooldays: the tradition of "six of the best" for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are still essential equipment for every self-respecting headmaster, public indignation against corporal punishment is on the rise, and the Labor government would like to abolish it for good...
...three hours on election night, party workers made 6,500 telephone calls to Republicans in the district, urging them to vote. The most enthusiastic volunteer was Romney. He recorded stirring endorsements for Licata, and bustled around in the district-despite an injured calf muscle that made him use a cane-for an afternoon of door-to-door and store-to-store stumping with the candidate in tow. Licata, for his part, campaigned on the promise that he would be "100% behind the Governor's program...
...Everglades, and may even be part of nature's balancing equation. In recent years, however, man has upset that equation, raising the question whether drought may not be the permanent future of the Everglades. Vast reclamation projects have turned swamps into bean, corn and sugar-cane fields, which not only partly block the natural flow of the Everglades "river" from its headwaters in Lake Okeechobee, but also have first claim on the area's water resources. When water is short, little if any is now left over for the wilderness. Immune for centuries to permanent damage from natural...
Somewhere in the upper left hand corner of Robert Downey's mind dances a little vaudevillian with cane and striped hat. Downey often discusses his work with him. The product of their collaboration is the most excellent and funny Chafed Elbows...
Critic Goldberg may have a point. Africa Addio is a lengthy rape scene in which the predators are the continent's white and black citizens and the victim is Africa itself. Film Makers Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi (Mondo Cane) have assembled a grand guignol of atrocity scenes, strung together with a booming narration and a melodramatic score. Among them: the wanton slaughter of herds of hippopotamuses, zebras, elephants and other wildlife; the execution by a black and white firing squad of black Congolese rebels; mound of 54 amputated hands, the ghastly souvenir of Bahutu reprisals against their Watutsi...