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Guinea Pigs. Significantly, that barometer of public opinion, Hubert Humphrey, supported the President. "Thank goodness," he said, "that at long last he has been able to get his finger in the air and sense what's going on and has decided to say amen to some of the things that the rest of us have been trying to do." Other Democratic candidates were more critical, but white liberal opinion is badly divided over the issue. The same is true of blacks. As much as 40% of the black vote went against busing in Florida last week, and the National...
Moro does not disappoint the sleepy viewers. He appears in a black bird suit, his "Ravenswear," ostensibly to plug a new film. Suddenly he is doing stunts with a severed finger, which has a history of putrefaction, that is in itself a small comic masterpiece. Moro's ultimate public outrage is a staging of his own funeral, a new high for that truly American form of expression, the synthesis of art and advertising...
...hunger, cold, frozen ears. So indoors we would torture ourselves to get used to the pain." To drive home his point, Kunayak swept the field in his own fearful event, the knuckle hop, by hopping 40 ft. on his toes and knuckles. Other such tests of mettle include the finger pull (two combatants locking middle fingers and pulling until one hollers uncle) and the ear pull, in which the toughest ears in the Arctic are wound with cord and pitted against each other...
...ANCIENT man," the centaur has told the young Jason, "myths and rituals are a regular part of existence." Employing the approach of neo-realism, Pasolini renders convincing a completely fantastic story and setting. This might be--as we watch the peasants file past, each dipping a finger in the bowl of a sacrificed victim's blood--a documentary made by time-traveling anthropologists. Magic has its place in this society, but the common people are close to the land, to nature. The landscapes--mountains and deserts, blazing skies, sun-baked cliffs riddled with cave-dwellings--surround Medea until she returns...
...Herbert Buckingham Khaury), who is starting action for a legal separation "to get the jump on her." Nonsense, said a spokesman for 19-year-old Miss Vicki, "All the fellow was doing was showing her the ropes." However that may be, "The wedding ring will always stay on my finger," trilled Tiny Tim. "She is still my sweet angel and I love her more than ever...