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What's in a name? To Muslims, a great deal. Hence another exotic moniker for sports fans to stumble over: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the impressive appellation by which 7-ft. 2-in. Basketball Star Lew Alcindor wishes to be known henceforth. Jabbar, a convert from Roman Catholicism, is not...
Snares and Trumpets. The result, a two-act, two-hour TV opera, was broadcast jointly last weekend by the BBC and America's NET. As it turned out, Owen Wingrave was something less than Britten's best. Though carefully modulated for the home listener, the vocal writing showed...
Benumbing News. This process energized Warhol's images of disaster-the car crashes, the electric chairs, the mushroom clouds and paintings like Red Race Riot, 1963-with singular force. A distillation had been made of the benumbing repetition of bad news in order to show that one should not...
Park, a scrupulously honest man who has led an almost spartan existence while in office, has been unable to control corruption in his regime. At least one Cabinet minister and about two dozen top officials of his ruling Democratic Republican Party have been living in an exotic residential area that...
A wine merchant, Martin (Ian caroms from mistress to wife, only find that Mrs. Wine Merchant (Lee Remick) plans to run off with her (Richard Attenborough). Wife shrink plan no abandonment of Martin; instead they demand his love and understanding, which they will return interest. Indeed, they are so that...