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...when the camera swings to the Anglo-Saxon side of the Pacific, com passion is jettisoned. That football game, for instance: manifestly the scrimmage is seen as a microcosm of American platitudes. But if sport so accurately reflects a society, what are we to say of the Indians' bloody game of lacrosse? Or the Latin American madness for soccer? The film's visits to Middle America strive for irony and, often, emerge as smugness or crass caricature. An ex-P.O.W.'s return to New Jersey is played against a background of red-white-and-blue-blooded...
MacLaine has a few guarded com plaints about industrial pollution, the lack of intellectual and artistic freedom, and Chinese puritanism, which condemns premarital sex while at the same tune forcefully suggesting late marriage...
...controls but did not have the disease will get $15,000 if they are still alive; otherwise their estates will receive $5,000. Nor will the men who died of the complications of syphilis or of other causes during the course of the study or since then be com pletely forgotten. Under the terms of the settlement, their estates will...
...take their lumps on the ice, then pass them along to the womenfolk in the bedroom. Loretta's steadfast affection for Dillon is meant to be win some, cockeyed and noble all at once. But in this benighted melodrama, com passion and indulgence are the same, and women are the stronger vessel be cause they take their punishment with a tear and a smile...
Died. Pierre Fresnay, 77, cinemactor and onetime member of the Comédie Française of heart disease; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Hailed at his death as the greatest French actor of his generation, Fresnay starred in some 70 films. His most renowned role, in Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1938), placed him opposite German prisoner-of-war camp Commandant Erich von Stroheim as anachronistically gallant aristocrats trapped in the horrors of World...