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...enough speeches each week to properly nominate a Presidential candidate, and so probably would not have been inspired had Moses appeared to reveal an Eleventh Commandment. When our guest threw it open to questions, we lobbed up fat, soft and non-curving batting practice offerings. Mailer, reading them as clever change-ups, lunged, missed, or popped to the infield. "What the hell," he complained, "I thought you Nieman Fellows were tough." One was reminded of a 300 hitter who, going 0-for-5 on a given night, charges the opposing pitcher with dealing in junkstuff: Mailer wanted a high, hard...
Unfortunately, his strength has been a little too much and his finesse a bit too clever. If there is any one "law and order" candidate for the presidency, Cox is it. As such he is getting a large boost from conservative professors on the Faculty who think of his role last year as primarily a judicial one, and who believe a judicious man is a man in whose hands the university should be placed...
Unfortunately, his strength has been a little too much and his finesse a bit too clever. If there is any one "law and order" candidate for the presidency, Cox is it. As such he is getting a large boost from conservative professors on the Faculty who think of his role last year as primarily a judicial one, and who believe a judicious man is a man in whose hands the university should be placed...
Like its two heroes, Borsalino sets itself up for the kill. It is not clever enough to be a successful parody and not tough enough to be a good genre piece. Delon moves through the picture like a still-warm stiff en route to a comfortable slab in the morgue, but Belmondo, mugging furiously and retaining just the right air of detachment, compensates by providing enough energy for this and at least three other movies. The music is loud and engaging and so are the costumes, which look like something from an old Esquire layout. Men's clothes, indeed...
...Icelandic to use their facilities for transatlantic jet flights. (The U.S. makes this concession because NATO has American-manned military bases in Iceland; Luxembourg's airline does not belong to I.A.T.A.) Icelandic manages to fly CL-44s out of five other European cities, but does so through a clever device. It charges I.A.T.A. rates on regular flights from, say, London or Oslo to Iceland; then it steeply reduces the fare for the rest of the journey from Iceland to New York...