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The story is slender: a Jewish doctor ministers illegally to a wounded fighter in the underground. But Writer-Director Zbyněk Brynych, a master of the Czech new wave, uses this somewhat shopworn situation as a structure on which to hang a number of unrelated scenes that are exceptionally...
The comparison of any two photographs on an absolute scale is practically impossible. Imagine, for example, an Ansel Adams photograph of the Rocky Mountains and a Life magazine shot of wounded soldiers in Vietnam. Even if someone comparing the two could decide that one better fulfills the photographer's purpose...
*Ironists were quick to point out that the court's decision came only a few days after the 32nd anniversary of the execution of Lindbergh Kidnaper Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Hauptmann, however, was not executed under federal law but under the New Jersey State murder law. In fact, only six...
THE quality of the dancing shows best in "Jazz-Ballet, or a Tale of Two Styles." For this piece, quite literally a "Dance of the Elements," Miss Crouse portrays water to a very simple piano melody. Her movements, drawn mainly from classical ballet are exceedingly simple, she repeats them over...
In causation and execution, the murder of Martin Luther King was both a symbol and a symptom of the nation's racial malaise. The proximate cause of his death was, ironically, a minor labor dispute in a Southern backwater: the two-month-old strike of 1,300 predominantly Negro...