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...master shots. Some bards had it that the king in a pique then rode his camel over her, but others thought Fitna too clever for such an ending. To get back in his good graces, the story goes, she arranged for the king to catch her carrying a cow up a flight of stairs. And how, pray tell, did she manage that? Simple, said Fitna. Ever since the cow was a newborn calf, she had performed the ritual; as its strength grew, so did hers: "Practice makes perfect...
...cast, finding itself with shallow, mechanical parts, has retaliated by only going through the motions. Even Laurence Senelick's lines, which he lets go with a luscoius roll, somehow land with a clunk. Bea Paipert makes a very funny cow of an old lady, Kathryn Walker gives a droll, nasal performance of a declining aristocrat, and Tom Jones is perfect as a timid schoolteacher. But Director George Hamlin's overall pace is funeral, and most of the performances lack snap. The audience, however, seemed to enjoy the same mechanical trick of "getting sick" five or six times...
...covers are meant to shout "Look at us! Look how outrageous we can be!" Sometimes the contents match the packaging. Every month, at least one Esquire article snipes at a sacred cow or takes some other unorthodox approach to a topic in the news. Recently, the magazine has offered "The Holy Kennedys," "The Late General MacArthur, Warts and All," "Bobby Baker Has It Made," "Two Cheers for the National Geographic," "In Defense of Cassius Clay," "The Life and Suspiciously Hard Times of Anthony Quinn," and "The American Newspaper Is Neither Record, Mirror, Journal, Ledger, Bulletin, Telegram, Examiner, Register, Chronicle, Gazette...
...other postwar entrepreneurs-mostly returning servicemen who shared Prescott's ambition to start an airline. Undaunted by all the competition, most of which was soon to wither, Prescott sent his pilots barnstorming for business. The company hauled grapes from the West Coast to Georgia, took Elsie, the Borden Cow, from the East to a California county fair, even toted Roy Rogers' horse Trigger around the rodeo circuit. All the while, the hustling Prescott ("We would wash cars on Sunday morning if we had to") was buying up airplanes and "gambling that somehow we'd find...
...great power has the right to dictate the peace to a victorious Israel. The spineless withdrawal of U.N. troops was in large part responsible for the conflict, as was Russia's arming of Egypt and Syria. The U.S., whose foreign policy has made a sacred cow out of the status quo everywhere in the world, did little to help Israel. Those who think the Arab-Israeli confrontation is over are living in a dream world. Nasser will be back. Syria will be back. And if Israel has a right to exist, it also has the right to the means...