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After 15 years of trying and more than 1,000 experimental mixed marriages, D.C. ("Bud") Basolo has produced a herd of 5,000 hardy cow-buffalo hybrids. The animals, says Buffalo Bud, are cheaper to feed and more resistant to disease than standard breeds of cattle. They fatten faster than regular steers (less than twelve months to reach market weight of 1,000 Ibs ) and reproduce readily. Basolo expects to send off a herd of 2,000 for their meat-counter debut this fall in Los Angeles...
...build so many housing complexes where we herd the old together? Since they live in a world of diminishing contemporaries, they naturally tend to think old, and to resign themselves to a life of passivity without a struggle. We are making old age the final segregation...
...present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael has become just another opinionator, more fiery and more skillful than most, but without any broad vision to separate her from the herd...
...like Mary, Queen of Scots, must have taken more than a casual look at Capra's original excursion. The opening of his version matches Capra practically scene for scene-and sometimes shot for shot. The choreography by Hermes Pan contains at least one number-a ballet by a herd of brawny natives swathed in salmon-colored loincloths and swirling matching scarves-that could stand (or leap) as a concise definition of contemporary camp...
...adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel comes closer to the emotional spirit of the subject period than do any of his subsequent films, and his arty style is appropriate to Lawrentian descriptions of passion. Alan Bates tells how one eats a fig a provocative Glenda Jackson dances before a herd of cattle--these scenes are handled very well, but the social attitudes of the book are lost. Read it first...