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Psychology is kept decently out of sight in most of the 25 horsey thrillers listed on the op-title page of Dick Francis' new entertainment. It is what goes on -- wheels turning in the murky unconscious, and all that -- when one of his characters, caught in some awkwardness, says "er . . ." That unmistakable Francis "er . . ." has got author and readers past many a potentially mushy spot and on to the good part, where the hero is gonked by hired gorillas or injected with horse tranquilizer, and then wakes up, aware that something is wrong, inside a locked steamer trunk...
...housewife to champ, Heart Like a Wheel evokes expectations of an automotive Breaking Away. No such luck, Director Jonathan Kaplan gets us in the car, but the ride is always too short. We feel a bit like the little kid who puts his only shiny quarter in the plastic horsey, expecting an exhilarating ride but only receiving a few quick, neck-snapping bobs...
...William Horsey, physical plant director said ten days ago that the operation of the leaking transformer is within EPA guidelines because a state inspector has looked...
...pretty women; they've been through too much for that. But they have dignity and character, and they stand by their men. Sometimes, when the men sit, they stand up for them. Two are especially outstanding--Sudy Crusenberry and Lois Scott. Crusenberry is stringy, with a long horsey face; she looks like the breaking up of a hard winter. Scott is gregarious, aggressive, and big--a tough woman. At one point she laughs and reaches into her prodigious bosom and comes up with a Colt .32, and, still laughing, replaces it. You get the idea...
After a financially dismal season last year, there was talk that the HRO was going to resort to gimmicky and war-horsey programming in order to insure filled houses. But although for the first time in many years they won't be able to afford a big-name soloist, their programs remain uncompromised and varied, posing a continuing series of worthwhile challenges to this excellent orchestra...