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...various Georges trek, parade and carom through a millennium...
...produces The Car, a movie equally moronic and spellbinding, in which a driverless sedan plays mass murderer. No Freudians necessary. The only medium to keep the faith is television, always a cultural anachronism, with the cop shows half consumed with cars chasing cars. Even here the four-wheeled protagonists carom off walls a lot and wind up as junk. The machine is dead, compacted in a bale. In full view of everyone, Detroit seemed bent on destroying itself...
...respected contender, Poland. Dashiki-clad, singing, whistle-blowing fans from Cameroon cheered their team's offensive abandon. As Polish defenders frantically raced in front of the goal, Forward Roger Milla, instead of passing to an unguarded teammate as a normal soccer player would, kicked away, letting the ball carom off Polish bodies. No goal was scored, but such bizarre tactics stunned the Poles, amused the international press corps and mystified many Spanish fans...
...policemen learn," Wambaugh writes, "life imitates not art but melodrama," and he enlivens his dense tale with vivid examples. His heroes carom off two patrolmen dubbed "street monsters" for their appetite for violence; a Marine posing for gay sculptors; the Ferret and the Weasel, a pair of frenzied narcs; a Vietnamese assassin; Tuna Can Tommy, a flasher with a phenomenal physique; and a massage-parlor hostess called Jackin Jill...
...most glaring irregularity in the Ivy selections must be the absence of the league's top scorer and second leading carom-grabber, Cornell's Mike Davis. The 6-4 forward placed on last year's All-Ivy second team and is the only-one of the top five scorers not to receive a distinction. The fact that he accumulated these impressive totals while playing on the worst team in the Ivies, does not justify relegating him to the honorable mention category...