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...along, more and more top athletes who traditionally would have wound up on the striking force suddenly found themselves channeled into the defensive crews. Examples abound. Many observers feel that Dick Butkus, 29, the ferocious middle linebacker of the Chicago Bears, has year in and year out been the finest football player in the N.F.L. Bruce Taylor, the No. 1 draft choice of the San Francisco 49ers in 1970, had been Boston University's leading scorer-as a defensive back. Most impressive of all are the incredible giants who toil in the trenches, the 260-and 270-lb. defensive...
...rode home from a dance one night in an ice-cream truck. An innocent life, a senseless death: the fury and the contradiction and the hopelessness of the whole situation come down, for Ophuls, finally to this. A Sense of Loss is the cinematic essay at its very finest. Scrupulously fair, profoundly humanistic, undetected by rhetoric and propaganda, Ophuls is the Orwell of the cinema...
Middle America is supposed to love its police; in Chicago the affair is on the rocks. Determined to persuade the city to put a second man in all patrolling squad cars and to eliminate lie detector tests for recruits, Chicago's finest started a "job action"; they festooned almost anything that moved with tickets. Even Mayor Richard Daley was outraged. When Alderman Vito Marzullo discovered a ticket on his Cadillac, he was driven to philosophical speculation: "Are they performing their duties now, or have they neglected their duties in the past...
Down the long elegant candlelit years since Le Pavilion opened in Manhattan in 1941, even the most jaded of gourmets have agreed that there was no restaurant in the U.S. quite like it. Founded in the finest French tradition by Master Restaurateur Henri Soule, Le Pavilion immediately established itself as the very best of a small but choice selection of places in which it was as gratifying to be seen as it was to be served the splendid fare. No detail was unimportant to Soule. He used only Baccarat crystal, for instance, and seated guests as carefully as he selected...
Broader trends show much the same thing: A massive resurgence of energy laden hard rock, the three-chord style, led by the J. Geils Band, the finest-chord rock band playing music. The startingly reactionary nature of white rock in Detroit a genre whose foundation rests on a move away from both the slickness of Motown and the innovative qualities of late sixties progressive rock. (A complete assessment of white rock in Detroit is in order, one will appear in this space soon. In short, rock in holding fast, or retreating, or simply in limbo, on each of its fronts...