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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film may develop into a compelling spy thriller. But no such luck--Antonioni isn't really interested in guns--or anything else for that matter--so Nicholson simply wanders through Europe in an existential search for self-identity and the Meaning of Life, picking up a languid Maria Schneider en route. Only the film's visual beauty--Spanish landscape and Gaudi architecture shot in lush Italian style--in any way redeems this tedious monstrosity...
Beyond the receiving line was the bier. A red party flag was draped over the Chairman's familiar gray tunic. His face looked old, but also unwrinkled and at rest. Unlike at Chou En-lai's funeral last January, when only an urn containing the late Premier's ashes was displayed, the Chairman's body has been brought before the Chinese people for a final heroic display. Many believed that, like Lenin, Mao would be embalmed and enshrined in a special mausoleum. As they would before an emperor of old -or a father-the Chinese wept...
...list of the world's great foods would have to include such Southern elegances as she-crab soup, terrapin stew, jambalaya, black-bottom pie, gumbo or pompano en papillote...
...afternoon of any Saturday when the Harvard football team is playing a home game, a procession of Harvard administrators and secretaries begins to wind its way from 60 Boylston Street across the river to the stadium at Soldiers Field. The Athletic Department staff leaves its enclave by Kirkland House en masse, to watch these contests. These are the administrators who take care of all the bureaucratic details of running a full-scale athletic program, so in a sense the games are the culmination of all their efforts...
...insights about the current state of Soviet aeronautical and electronic technology. Delighted by Belenko's gift, the White House immediately announced its willingness to grant political asylum to the Soviet lieutenant. At week's end he arrived in Los Angeles aboard a commercial airliner from Tokyo en route to a secret destination, where he will be questioned by U.S. military and intelligence officers. Heading in the opposite direction, a team of Air Force experts left for Japan to analyze and assess...