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...strange machines look as if they might suddenly dip flaps, lift noses and head off into the wild blue yonder, borne on small wings that protrude fore and aft, and sometimes in between. Actually the wings, or foils, have an entirely different purpose. They are aerodynamically designed to keep a dazzling new crop of racing cars glued to the ground in this year's Indianapolis 500, giving them better stability and traction and thus greater speed. This Saturday, as the traditional field of 33 cars challenges Indy's confining concrete-walled track, speed-much more than ever before...
...polished fruit that turn out to be authentic. Tables ring the ciruclar stage and the actors flirt with members of the audience--which could be dangerous if someone beveraged on the complimentary DiSabato Rose gets jealous. But Wednesday night, with tuxedoed patrons filling the tables and Art at the fore it was a sort of provincial triumph for Mather House. It's a long slouch back from Alphaville...
Cleary appears to be correct, at least in theory. The fast, clean American game with crisp passing and tight fore-checking may pass out of existence now that enemy forwards and defensemen can wade into the offensive zone at will. It would be unfortunate, especially since so few American college teams are capable of playing that way--Cornell. Boston University, Harvard, New Hampshire, and one or two others...
...life. That few do - and fewer still do well - may be the fault of formal education, which overstresses the discipline of sequential facts. Tired of such lock steps, the mind takes leaps - sometimes to fresh revelation. The pun is such a jump, but politicians, above all, should look be fore they leap. If puns are to be part of this year's political campaigns, it is to be hoped that the efforts will improve. Already Muskie's punning has begun to work up a backlash...
What brings these doom prognostications to the fore are two books which, the ads would have it, give us some of the best cultural criticism of our time. The first, Film 70-71, is a collection of reviews by the most quoted of movie reviewers, the members of the National Society of Film Critics, who write mainly for New York-based national magazines. The one big exception is Gary Arnold of The Washington Post. He's the first daily critic to make the membership list; as he's a Kael protege of some renown, I'd love to know...