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...Bonner--a slow-motion destruction of a cottage by a tractor which is the softest piece of visual agrarian propaganda since The Grapes of Wrath, and a scene in an empty railroad station heightened by the handy entrance of a train--stick out like Irish bulls in a full corral. There is interplay between Ace (Robert Preston) and Mrs. Bonner which says more about responsibility in male-female relationships (and with the slightest means) than I would ever have thought Peckinpah capable of. "All you are is dreams and sweet talk," says the woman. "And I sweetened the dreams...
...catch the vampires for their fatal treatment, the bat killers suspend, above the fence of a cattle corral, a Japanese nylon mist net, as fine as a lady's "invisible" hair net. The net is invisible in the dark when the bats sortie and, more important, its fine threads give back no detectable echo for the vampire's sonar system. When a bat is netted, a technician wearing tough leather gloves carefully removes it from the net and rubs its back with half a teaspoonful of petroleum jelly laced with 50 milligrams of diphenadione...
...world's most famous film director may waddle a bit more slowly and his double chin may now be subdivided into a triplex, but no one, particularly an actor who strays into his corral, can doubt that there is still only one brand on a Hitchcock film...
...lacocca, LL.D., president of Ford Motor Co. Creative involvement in the evolution of that corral of young people's vehicles [Mustang, Maverick, Pinto] has shown a balanced alertness to engineering, financial and psychological trends...
...survive, Hiram Scott had to keep enrollment at capacity, but each semester 30% dropped out, dissatisfied with the school's limited curriculum. Instead of looking for ways to keep what students it had, Hiram Scott expanded its recruiting staff to the point that it cost $700 to corral a student who would pay $2,500 in yearly fees. In December 1970, the trustees declared bankruptcy, dividing the cash on hand to pay each employee $80 in Christmas week wages. Last August, the college had only 225 applicants for 1,500 places, and the trustees closed up shop for good...