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...black shoes sparkled, his gold watch glittered. In the lapel of his crisp blue jacket a gold pin with five pearls gleamed. Under the hot glare of TV lights he kept dry and cool, sipping club soda. From behind the immaculate facade, however, came a sordid account of influence peddling. In two days of public hearings before the House ethics committee, Tongsun Park, the South Korean rice broker and Georgetown party host, provided the details of how he gave 31 past and present Congressmen, two congressional candidates and President Nixon's re-election committee upward...
...with a new coach and full varsity status, took advantage of the Crimson's lapse to forge ahead and cruise across the finish line, going away in a time of 5:48 over the 1500-meter course. Radcliffe glided across in 5:56, while Cornell, enjoying the scenery and crisp sea air, finished last (well, let's be charitable and say "third...
...Aquino was given the chance on national television to rebut official charges that he had been a CIA agent. Speaking from his detention center in Fort Bonifacio, Aquino first coolly refuted the CIA charge. Then, with millions of Manilans still glued to their TV sets, he launched into a crisp, rapid-fire denial of a raft of other government charges against him. That dramatic appearance provided a crucial boost to Marcos' opposition, whose crowds have multiplied rapidly...
...outline, the film has a predictable air about it, it should also be said that it isn't half bad. There is a crisp professionalism about David Greene's direction, and the writers have done without that bane of the disaster-picture formula, the subplot...
...script is well served by Director Martin Ritt (Sounder, The Front), who has collaborated with Cinematographer John Alonzo and Production Designer Robert Luthardt to paint the colorful Louisiana and New Mexico settings in crisp detail. Ritt has the good sense to stretch out the tense race sequences (with slow motion, if necessary) and gallop by the story's mawkish father-son, brother-brother and child-horse confrontations. He even gets away with the overheated scenes that depict the star colt's birth and its mother's untimely death...