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Penn's lineup will probably remain an enigma until starting time. Bailey Brown and Captain John Reese will undoubtedly fill the top two spots one way or the other. These are two of the most powerful players in the East, especially on their own fast courts. Harvard's Chum Steele, who has a mean attack himself, may be able to match blows with Penn; Dave Benjamin, with his balanced game, will have even more trouble than Steele...
Godard muddles an already tricky narrative with personal mannerisms and outright irrelevancies. Brigitte Bardot is a sullen enigma as the wife, and Michel Piccoli as the husband is merely opaque. Hollywood's Jack Palance makes the producer seem to be none other than Jack Palance...
John Edgar Hoover, who almost singlehanded turned a subsidiary department of the U.S. Department of Justice into that internationally famous unit known as the FBI, has long been an enigma within an enigma. His critics have accused him of being a publicity seeker; yet Hoover as a rule will not even pose for a picture unless he has a prepublication look at the story that is to go with it, and in the 40 years that he has headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation, his open-forum press conferences have been as scarce as hens' teeth...
...sheet-the Vadim trademark-then repeats the obligatory routine with a brunette (Hardy). What he conveys, at last, is a boyish conviction that these bored, civilized votaries of pleasure might be just the sort for a fun weekend, but no longer. Sagan's sidelong glance at the enigma of women, in Vadim's view, is no enigma at all. It is merely a nutty, naughty peep show...
...somewhat of an enigma, since today's game is their first of the young season. But word has filtered across the Charles that the Terriers do have a handful of outstanding players, led by left halfback Peter Wilder...