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Dirty Lungs. Unfortunately, this may be easier said than done. For one thing, there is no guarantee that all maritime nations will stop or can be made to stop their headlong rush toward the industrialization that accounts for most pollution. It will be equally difficult to clean up the mess already at hand. The Mediterranean, for instance, is badly ventilated. Water flowing in from the Atlantic through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar is flushed by outflow from four "lungs" -the Adriatic, the Aegean and the Rhone and Nile rivers. But these lungs, as Britain's Lord Ritchie-Calder notes...
...Jesus Christ Superstar is abstract, intimate, capable of subtly engaging the mind and the imagination. Director O'Horgan's frenetic Broadway incarnation is rarely any of those things. It is, instead, a frequently breathless and occasionally stupendous son et lumière show, crowded with mechanical contrivances, and a headlong rush of happenings that, as designer Robin Wagner puts it, "overlap like arrows in flight...
...turns chatty and analytical, this personal journal runs from Princeton days to the first rumbles of World War II. It does not make any broad assessment of the era or attempt to assess the influence of Foreign Affairs. The narrative suffers sometimes from a certain headlong quality: Armstrong travels to, say, Eastern Europe, sketches in only a few lines to describe the large and impossibly complex issues there, then reboards the Orient Express to plunge...
...Scott and Irwin edged farther down into the rille, Nobel Laureate Harold Urey, watching in Houston, nervously warned: "Don't get too close, fellows." Moments later, catching a foot on a rock, Scott took a headlong tumble and fell clumsily forward on his right arm and shoulder. Not until Scott was helped to his feet by Irwin and continued his jaunt did the world breathe easy. "This time," vowed the unhurt Scott, "I'll look and make sure I don't fall over some silly rock...
...Cioffi, who was equally impressive as the villain in Klute. There is also some robust acting by Moses Gunn as an orotund Harlem mobster. Despite a few too many racial jokes, Shaft is a fast-moving pleasure. Director Gordon Parks keeps things going at such a headlong pace that the movie hardly pauses for breath...