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...veteran trained Damascus, Tom Rolfe and Chieftain, three brilliant performers. Mounted on a pony, he escorts Ruffian to and from Belmont's barn No. 34 every morning at dawn for her daily workouts. Afterward, he soaks her front legs in a tub of ice water, then he and Groom Daniel Williams pack all four legs in damp clay to keep them cool. When he is not busy with Ruffian, Whiteley can usually be found working with another of his 19 horses...
...some moviegoers emerging from a late-night screening of A Streetcar Named Desire at Tel Aviv's Cinema One theater. Next the fedayeen pitched grenades in the direction of a nearby hall where a wedding reception was in progress. Caught in the attack were the terrified bride and groom, who ran for their lives. As Israeli police returned the fire, the fedayeen ducked into the 28-room Savoy Hotel on Ge'ula Street, where they took hostage a dozen surprised guests. By the tune Israeli paratroopers liberated the four-story building in a carefully coordinated predawn raid, seven...
Sardonic Metaphor. That is just the trouble. As played, deftly, by Beatty, George is an affable con man who goes no deeper than his own hypocrisy. The reason, presumably, for setting the movie in 1968 is to groom George, the last shabby survivor of the age of grooviness, into a sardonic metaphor. There are many references to the Nixon election, and at times the movie appears to be attempting a delineation of the moral neutrality that could produce a Nixon and a Watergate...
...images of antique chic (among which may be counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge Semprun (Z), present their Stavisky as a doom-haunted manic-depressive and try to groom him into a symbol for all of prewar France. There is a subplot involving Trotsky, who had sought asylum in France during that time, and Resnais obviously hoped to suggest that the swindler and the Communist here represent in effect the two political alternatives between which the country had to choose...
...token peace with the right. Moreover, he is no longer the political threat he used to be. Age is fast removing him from contention; Ford plans to run for the presidency in 1976, and Rockefeller will be 72 in 1980. In the meantime, Ford has ample leisure to groom a successor and eventually install him as Vice President if Rockefeller moves on to a Cabinet post. Rockefeller, on the other hand, would probably be the last to admit that he is too old to run. Refusing to tell reporters last week whether he intended to make another...