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...information gathered will then be fed into computers. Classified data on weapon yields and height of bursts will be included as well. Still, there is no guarantee that all the mysteries of nuclear winter can be unraveled. Says Alan Hecht, director of the National Climate Program Office in Washington: "We're being asked to solve a question that is at the heart of meteorology today." In other words, if scientists cannot predict tomorrow's weather, how can they foresee the aftermath of World...
Electronic wizardry is, of course, no better than the people who control it, and ABC's reportage, although wide, has been less than deep. Gymnastics Commentators Rigby McCoy and Kurt Thomas repeatedly tossed off the names of movements (Tsukahara, Strelli and Hecht) without using pretaped footage to define them. Swimming Commentator Mark Spitz was only occasionally instructive; although shorter races are often won in the turns, neither he nor ABC's cameras demonstrated what makes a turn effective. Track Commentator O.J. Simpson added little to what viewers saw, although onetime Olympian Marty Liquori aptly explained pacing...
Surprisingly, a poet has proved most successful in breaking through the language barrier. Joseph Brodsky, 43, one of the finest Russian poets of his generation, has been rendered into English by such distinguished American colleagues as Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht and Howard Moss. Brodsky has even acted as his own translator for two of the poems included in his latest collection, A Part of Speech (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Currently a New York City resident, Brodsky has been covered with honors, prizes and fellowships, including a $208,000 Mac Arthur Foundation award in 1981. Manifestly, he has traveled a vast distance...
Moss Hart testified that the prayer of ev ery aspiring playwright was, "Please God, let Jed Harris do my play." Nevertheless, with playwrights from Ben Hecht to Thornton Wilder, he imposed marathon revisions and usually ended by demanding a co-author credit and half the royalties. When he directed Arthur Miller's The Crucible in 1953, he responded to an out-of-town audience's calls for the author by going onstage and taking...
Scarface takes its title, plot and comic-grotesque tone from a 1932 film directed by Howard Hawks, written by Ben Hecht and John Lee Mahin and starring Paul Muni as a lightly fictionalized, heavily romanticized Al Capone. That Scarface ran 90 minutes; this one ambles along at nearly twice the length. The first film has a screwball-comedy briskness that made Tony an outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out social message. The new Scarface is at bottom a bitter comedy about the perils of drug abuse...