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Harvard finished tied for fifth with a 6-7 record in the EIBL last year, four-and-a-half games behind second-place Navy, and a game-and-a-half ahead of Princeton...
...difficulties hindered the four-and-a-half hour operation in which doctors performed a coronary triple bypass. Doctors afterwards compared the danger involved in Kissinger's operation to that involved in a gallbladder operation. The only other operation Kissinger had undergone was an appendectomy 25 years...
...less, but more outrageous. What are to us abstract ideas, things for conversation, are the absolute truths in Napoleon. First, it is a panegyric to the transcendent man, he who honestly commands fate rather than obeys it. Yet Napoleon goes still farther and develops into a four-and-a-half hour monument to nationalism--that thoroughly obscene word--and concludes in a sweeping millenial vision. All France will find redemption in this one, unlikely man. It smell of wild irrationality, even fascism. How could anyone believe...
Napoleon [Metropolitan Center]: Abel Gance's long lost cinematic leviathan may well be the War and Peace of the screen. With four-and-a-half hours of film, a new score written and conducted by Francis Ford Coppola's father and played by a 60-piece orchestra, and a three-screen panoramic ending, it may be the biggest thing since The Seventh Seal--or may be even Edison, for crissake...
WHAT COMES together after four-and-a-half hours in the dark is a tremendous sense of Gance's technical innovations. Revolting against the dictates of the time, he sets the camera free of its confining tripod, creating a frenzy that propells history itself. To film the chase across Corsica, he straps a camera to a horse's back, and keeps pace with the lead troops. Not one image is blurred or out of focus. Before the audience, the foremost rider's horse unfolds its limbs in the rhythmical ritual of a gallop. Its nostrils flair, its hind quarters fleck...