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...linksters had their troubles with the demanding 6th hole, a 463 yard par four with an hourglass fairway. Vik came away with a five while Paxton salvaged a bogey by punching a shot through some overhanging tree limbs onto the green...
...imaginative production might have rescued the good and masked the bad in this 80-year-old drama. Director Ellis Rabb reverses that equation, how ever; his Caesar and Cleopatra is as dull as it is dutiful. Scenes change with astonishing rapidity, but the action seems regulated by an hourglass - an illusion whose secret is best left with Rabb and the Sphinx. Ironically, the one liberty the director has taken, a vigorous pruning to keep the play within two hours, makes Shaw's needlessly complicated plot simply baffling...
...COCA-COLA BEAT COCA-COLA blared the strange headline in a recent newspaper ad in Dallas. Starkly pictured beneath the message was the soft drink's familiar hourglass bottle flanked by two glasses, one marked M, the other Q. Thus opened what is becoming one of advertising's most bizarre feuds. It pits the nation's leading soft-drink maker, Coca-Cola, against its closest ranking competitor, Pepsi-Cola, in a taste bud to taste bud donnybrook that for sheer zaniness outdoes anything the ad world has seen in years...
...this vigorous, chaotic documentary manipulates time for its own ends. The bombing of Haiphong harbor, John Foster Dulles' domino theory, J. Edgar Hoover's fears of "common-ists," a brutal football game, '40s war movies-all flow back and forth like sand in an hourglass. The confusion is deliberate. Hearts and Minds, says Producer-Director Peter Davis, "is not a chronology of war so much as a study of people's feelings...
...hourglass motif is visible in the Johan-Marianne relationship. The sands of power, all his at the film's beginning, are all hers at the end. Women's libbers will probably applaud, but Bergman is less concerned with the inequality of the sexes than with the inequity of the cosmos. He seems to see the love of men and women as a metaphysical surrogate for the absence of God and God's love. It is clearly an incommensurable task. But who could better symbolize the desperate gallantry of the venture than Liv Ullmann, the orchid...