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Dunster's Jim Higgins scored the game's only touchdown following a blocked punt early in the first quarter Higgins broke through the right side of Adams' line and blocked punter Fran Saba's kick. Recovering the loose ball, Higgins ran twenty-five yards to score...
...poem in a recent issue of the New Statesman contains the quatrain: Death shares the news with Françoise Hardy's/ Sex life, Lady Antonio's parties,/ Mr. Wilson's thousand days,/ Plots of the world's most famous plays...
...year's Mouchette. For the first time, however, his central character is something more than a passive, symbolic victim. Her suicide is portrayed as a positive act of defiance, not desperation. Bresson's customary stylistic austerity seems softened by his first use of color film, but what François Truffaut called his "theoretical, mathematical, musical and above all ascetic" approach to the cinema may still seem much too calculated for most viewers. Objects for Bresson are as important as his characters, and he lingers on prolonged shots of doors, stairways and display cases. Still, Une Femme Douce...
...combination of cost cutting, rate in creases and shrewdly timed expansion, Barren has managed to double the company's profits from $6.6 million in 1966 to $12.2 million last year. In the same period, revenues rose only 18% to $231 million. The chain, which owns, manages or fran chises 67 hotels and inns in 56 U.S. cities, currently has an oc cupancy rate 10% above the industry-wide average of 61%. More remarkable, that occupancy level has been reached despite a 21% advance in Hilton's average room rate from $16.43 to $21.27. On the New York Stock...
...well, that's Catherine Deneuve for you. At least that's the Deneuve of late, for while La Chamade is based on a Françoise Sagan novel, it somewhat resembles Belle de Jour and, to a lesser extent, The April Fools. But it lacks the surrealistic pathology of Belle and the slick American romance of Fools. Its milieu, instead, is the typical Sagan domain of croquet on Parisian lawns and seaside Scrabble on the Cote d'Azur, of cliquishness and banal cleverness ("I'm wearing black because it's so gay"), of highly polished...