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...with all movies, the gamble was partly economic, but not primarily so. In fact, at a time when the merely average movie, nowhere near as long (2 hr. 43 min.), complex or striking to look at, costs about $11 million, and in a year when competing pictures like Dune and The Cotton Club ran up tabs in the $50 million range, Passage, at around $16 million, seems like a bargain. Its budget is a tribute to an ascetic director's waste-not-want-not ability to visualize precisely what he wants on paper, then put it on film efficiently...
...weak and short of breath and looking exactly as he did before the implant. The other experiment was also uncomfortable: to measure his lungs' output, a tight-fitting mask was placed over his nose and mouth. The test was expected to last 45 min. but took 1½ hr. "He was very upset about that but still cooperated with us," said DeVries, adding, "He kind of told me off." Though Schroeder agreed to the tests before the implant, new questions have been raised about the ethics of further experimentation on a patient who has already undergone experimental surgery. Replied...
Even with their caution, the astronauts at one point were 1 hr. 20 min. ahead of schedule. It all went so well that toward the end they slowed down to relax and drink in the views. They completed the rescue in less than six hours. Said a cheery Commander Hauck: "Houston, we've got two satellites locked...
...result is a grand, sprawling entertainment that incites enthrallment for much of its 2 hr. 38 min. Shaffer's screenplay retains many of the play's epigrammatic fulminations, deftly synopsizes whole sections, transforms Mozart's father from a hectoring apparition to an onscreen tyrant, and provides a thrilling new climax in which the dying Mozart dictates his Requiem to a Salieri racked with guilt, jealousy and awe. If the operatic excerpts occasionally impede dramatic flow, they capture the Mozartian spirit as well as comment, with typical Forman bravura, on the theme of an oaf who makes miracles...
...none of Ashford's records and all of her dreams have been set at the Olympics. But she has been awakened frequently by nightmares: in 1979 she ran away from the best international 100 and 200 fields, celebrated East Germans Marlies Göhr and Marita Koch included, at the World Cup. But by 1980 her fine, fragile legs were popping strings, and they could not be summoned to try out for a symbolic team. Ashford posted her world record 100 (10.79) in Colorado last summer to chill the East German runners awaiting her in Helsinki. But she arrived...