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Before meeting with Hua, Carter gave an interview on Japanese television designed to ease increasing Soviet worries that the U.S. and China were about to gang up on the Soviet Union. Said the President of the U.S.-China moves: "We believe that this relationship should not be used by either country against the Soviet Union. We should not combine our efforts against another nation, but we should combine our efforts to maintain peace...
...much as any other Yankee, Fred Stanley (who, like Charlie Brown, is properly referred to by both his first and last name) characterizes the Bronx gang which is trampling the rest of the American League. The word echoing this year in the great House That Ruth Built is "depth." Fred Stanley is not Mr. Power, Mr. October, Mr. Average or Mr. Speed. He is Mr. Depth...
...punk-gothic horror movie about a gang of vicious hot-rodders who terrorize the few survivors of an atomic apocalypse, and who are tracked down and slaughtered by a draconian police force. As a story, the film makes for overwrought, even repellent melodrama. The movie has little feeling for, or interest in, the human idiosyncrasies of its characters; they are glorified stunt men, stock figures in stock cars. But Mad Max is not a "people picture." It is an action movie whose subject is machines, and the sophisticated killing ma chine man could become. The hardware is the star here...
...Electric Horseman. But it is an often powerful film. Its most potent passages come at the beginning. Redford, in the title role, becomes an inmate in a prison in order to experience conditions there firsthand before he takes over as warden. Since I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang almost half a century ago, moviegoers have periodically been made painfully aware of how rotten life can be on a Southern prison farm. Director Rosenberg had a good go at the subject in Cool Hand Luke (1967). But never has the food looked so disgusting, or the living conditions...
...voice is soft, whisky-warm and a bit rueful; he knows that in 1901 his day is over, that he is out of place among the boost ers and dealers who have built the town and fenced the range. They have brought him here to wipe out a gang of rustlers, but his murderous skills and cranky in dependence make the clean-shirt-once-a-week crowd nervous. Before long, sure enough, they frame him for the cowardly killing of a boy of 15. The situation is al most self-consciously classic, and there is a temptation to yell "Come...