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...shallowly portentous ("What is your outlook on the state of the world, Roy?" asked former New York Mayor John Lindsay, now a guest commentator on the show, of British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins) and the trivial (last Monday was Joan of Arc's birthday). Jazzy film montages flick past to numbingly appropriate pop music (example: shots of gold bars set to the strains of Donovan's Mellow Yellow). The only relief is the show's solidly professional, twice-hourly newscast anchored by Peter Jennings, 36, former ABC network-news anchor man and most recently chief...
After a scoreless first half, both offenses finally got untracked. Star right inner Karen Linsley broke the ice for Radcliffe with a beautiful flick at the beginning of the second half. "In the first half our girls had good speed," O'Connor said, "but after two Wheaton girls collided on the field and play was stopped, the Wheaton team came back with momentum...
...occupy opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. After watching Humphrey Bogart lose his women at the airport, after witnessing Yves Montand's dangerous political activities in France, after watching Jack Nicholson board a freight truck for Alaska, the realist is liable to yawn, comment that it was a "good flick," and go happily to Brigham's for ice cream before returning to study...
Though it sounds like the plot from the science fiction flick Them, in which giant ants threaten mankind, the green-ant menace is serious to the aborigines...
...land, many of the old, abandoned monuments to America's past are welcoming visitors as they never did before. There are the august red brick firehouses, the rococo waterworks, the splendiferous banks with marble floors and tellers' grilles that could have come from a Jimmy Cagney heist flick, abandoned churches raised with prayer and artistry, majestic railroad stations, many designed by the finest architects in the U.S. They have been re-antiquated and reinserted into American life with love and ambience-and with food and wine. The fact is that hundreds of classic buildings throughout the U.S. have...