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Ritchie and Writer Bill Lancaster (Burt's son) are especially shrewd in showing how a game for kids is converted into a contest of egos for their elders. The movie is calculated and a little cute. It relies too heavily on the amusement value of hearing little kids cuss like Marines. Yet The Bad News Bears is also tough-minded. It does not turn Buttermaker into a lovable codger, and the kids do not become last-minute victors...
Hough apparently revels in Jesus Christ figures, and Gifford needs those 30 pages to accept the responsibility for the sins of some kids who cuss in front of their neighbors, a drunk who dies in a flophouse room, and Jimmy Johnson himself. The verdict is hardly definitive for Gifford, who anguishes, with the italicism that is appropriate to a Monday morning quarterback of the Crucifixion, "What if he's innocent?" Jimmy Johnson has become a Christ-figure too, and before Gifford can finish his narrative/life, he must accept the burden of fingered Jimmy, who, albeit begrudgingly, bore the sins...
...permanent division line between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities. "Now is the time to settle the Cyprus problem once and for all, and that's what we are doing," pronounced Turkish Foreign Minister Turan Günes, (see box). "Let public opinion embrace the Greeks and cuss us out. We don't care...
...clear: It would fight until Israel came up with a significant pullback. Syrian Vice Foreign Minister Abdel Ghani Rafii told TIME Correspondent William Stewart in a calm and strangely relaxed Damascus last week: "If we have assur ances about withdrawal and the restoration of Palestinian rights, we can dis cuss the rest at Geneva. Disengagement is the interim step...
...eral of Alitalia: "Lufthansa has been making noises to the effect that it might possibly review its position if the rest of us make some move toward them." If they come at all, conciliatory moves will probably be made next week, when IATA members meet in Miami to dis cuss fares to Asia and Latin America...