Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush hour every hour all day." The University of Georgia has more autos than eight out of ten towns in Georgia. The University of Houston has 14,000 student cars competing for 5,500 parking places. At the University of Washington, armed campus cops in prowl cars can chase speeders clear to Idaho if necessary. Illinois has put a criminology professor in charge of the whole mess. The car has begun to shape campus life all over the country. The timing of cultural events depends on available parking. Fraternity house lawns look like drive-in restaurants. On sprawling campuses, where...
Stray Dog, made in 1949 by Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa, is a less expert thriller but a deeper movie than his recent High and Low. Both are cops-and-robbers chase films, starring Toshiro Mifune. But the older work, aglow with zest and freshness, displays abundantly two qualities of Kurosawa's ripening genius: the ability to make moving pictures move, and an aching compassion for his fellow...
Challenger Clay led them all a merry chase. He met Liston's plane at the airport, spouted insults at Sonny and his wife. He threatened to picket Liston's training camp. He offered to fight Sonny on the street, for free. "I cannot be beaten," he insisted. "It's prophesied for me to be successful." But at his public training sessions, Clay looked impressively listless. The experts hooted. And the prefight weigh-in did nothing to change their minds...
After the kidnap-slaying of a rich widow's young son, police chase the two killers to the wet end of a jetty in the harbor at Cannes. Suddenly, three men step forth, each claiming that he is an innocent bystander and the other two the culprits. All their alibis seem as dubious as their morals...
President Joao Goulart has just signed a decree doubling the monthly minimum wage for urban Brazilian workers to 42,000 cruzeiros, which is $68 on the official exchange rate and about $30 in actual buying power. The workers are glad to get the cash they need to chase rising prices, but the new move adds just another episode to the nightmare that businessmen must endure to survive in Brazil. Says William Jones, general manager of Remington Rand in Brazil: "Every executive here should read Through the Looking Glass at least once each week-especially that part where Alice is told...