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There was the ill-starred Lamb Chop, champion filly who broke a leg and had to be shot; the ill-starred Kauai King, Derby winner who pulled up lame six weeks later and never raced again; the ill-starred Cool Reception, who finished second in the Belmont on three legs...
...country celebrated by Steinbeck, leather-handed migrant workers?some of them Latin-Americans, whose 2,000,000 poor rank second only to Negroes in the U.S.?work the fields and wreck the saloons in an epic cycle of productivity and degradation. Many men stagger into the fields to chop weeds for $1.40 an hour until they have enough for another binge. Others grind out an endless season of stoop labor to keep their families barely abreast of the poverty line...
...openings go, it was a far cry from 1938's International Exhibition of Surrealism, when 2,000 outraged Parisians staged a near riot. Or from Cologne's Dada exposition of 1920, when the entrance hall was a public lavatory, the visitors were supplied with an ax to chop up the art, and a young girl in a white Communion dress stood on a platform reciting obscene verse...
...Woman. The directing is still there: the freshness and unpretentiousness of home-movies comes through in the acting, as, unfortunately, it does in the editing. A Man and a Woman flowed; each episode followed the one before it smoothly. In Live for Life, the documentary sequences chop up the story, and though Lelouch has tried to fashion a rope, all we get is a few strands loosely wound together. The story itself stops and starts like a temperamental machine; incidents last too long, making their point several times over, while others are cut short. But where it goes, the film...
Dean Ford, chairman of the CEP, said last night that the Committee quickly decided to revise the rules when they realized how much Independent Study has changed over the years. Originally Independent Study was to be a mechanism for students to chop their course load from four to three and pursue--or not pursue--a special project with little supervision. Actually most Independent Studies resemble tutorials--carefully supervised one-man courses...