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...with another director. This is one of the elements that makes the movie feel so masterful--Rafelson wants you to notice the facial ticks and pulsing veins in his quick close-ups. He is no less indulgent of Jessica Lange as she goes through her role of the petulant hellcat. Again and again. Rafelson sets up scenes that point to her vicious, fatal beauty, to give the sense that it is doomed from the start. His camera lingers, constantly circling Nicholson and Lange and they creep around each other in their American dance macabre...
DIED. William T. Schwendler, 73, a founder and chief engineer (1930-50) of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.; of heart disease; in Farmingdale, N.Y. Schwendler helped design World War II combat aircraft (the Wildcat, Hellcat and Avenger) that accounted for more than two-thirds of enemy planes shot down by the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater...
...childlike and the vulnerable so magically as the heroine of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. Starring in Rossini's La Cenerentola with La Scala in Washington, D.C., last September, she displayed enough bravura vocal fireworks to suggest that Flicka also has a bit of the hellcat...
...pussycat (Diana Sands) is a hellcat, a down-to-dirt prostitute with a tongue of brass. The owl (Alan Alda) is more of a penguin with a hotfoot, a bookstore clerk whose bookish dignity is destined to be bruised beyond repair. As figments of their own imaginations, they conceive of themselves, respectively, as a model and a writer...
Well experienced in building conventional aircraft, Grumman produced 17,000 planes during World War II. With its fighters, notably the Wildcat and Hellcat, it did more than any other planemaker to win the war in the Pacific. Sales climbed to $324 million during 1944, then plummeted to $24 million in 1947 as military demand virtually disappeared. Struggling back, Grumman branched into rescue, transport and company planes, as well as aluminum truck bodies, boats and canoes. By last year, sales were at $317 million and profits $6.1 million...