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...other kind of football, association or soccer, is mainly for the lower orders. The ball can be thrown into play, but play itself is a matter of booting. Most nations cling to the original English name-futbol or fussball or, for the Scots, fu'bo'. But the Italians logically call it il calcio (or if they're Roman, er carcio), meaning "the kick." It is perhaps the only human game theoretically playable by birds...
Confucius, whose name is a Latinized version of King Fu-tzu or Master Rung, would likely be amused at all the attention he is getting. His own life was singularly lacking in worldly success. Born in 551 B.C. of an impoverished noble family in what is now Shantung province, he spent his life as an itinerant office seeker, wandering throughout the feudal kingdoms into which China was then divided, looking for a ruler who would put his ideas about government into practice. Except for a few months as a minister in his native state of Lu, he remained unemployed until...
...control. If the world's not doomed (Mean Streets), it's irrational (Don't Look Now); if it's not confined (Papillon, American Graffiti), it's corrupt, inconvertibly so (Serpico, Day of the Dolphin, Paper Moon, etc). And--most apparent in this year of sidekicks and Kung Fu, women in the movies are less in evidence than ever...
...Mental Health, points out that the overall amount of TV time devoted to "action" programming has not changed significantly in the past several years. But the focus of that programming has shifted from the western to the urban setting. (There are only three westerns this year, Hec Ramsey, Kung-Fu and granddaddy Gunsmoke.) "When the norm shifts to the urban and contemporary," says Gerbner, "it implies an increased preoccupation with law-and-order and a general fear about the quality of life in our cities...
...major Hollywood companies have become mere subsidiaries of profit-directed conglomerates like Gulf & Western Industries (Paramount) and Transamerica Corp. (United Artists). High-cost extravaganzas have become as rare as singing cowboys and have been replaced by Aubrey's genre: lowbudget, high-profit black films (Cleopatra Jones) and Kung Fu films (Fists of Fury). What future role Jim Aubrey may play in the new Hollywood that he helped shape is a question that will have to wait for his announcement of what he will do for an encore...