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Track and field will dominate the second part of the Munich program. To the winner of the men's 100-meter dash traditionally goes the title of "world's fastest human." Early this year, when U.S. sprinters were rising and falling like imperfect souffles, it looked as if the title might go to a Russian for the first time. Valery Borzov, from the little Ukrainian town of Novaya Kakhovka, had beaten every international runner to face him in three seasons. If anyone could conquer him by the time the Games began, it seemed it might be the "Southern...
Shyre's adaptation and Whitmore's performance evoke Will Rogers clearly. Will was a child who exposed the exalted emperors of his time in all their embarrassing nakedness. His humor derived from his innocent exaggeration of the discrepancies between the grandiose pretentions of people and institutions and their imperfect realities. Rogers questioned the value of a college education: "Will college pay? Of course college will pay--it you're a halfback or a basketball player. College athletes sometimes ask me when they should turn pro. I tell them, 'Not until you make as much as you can in college...
...best in giving the illusion of depth to a composition. One recalls that several more serious films (Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder was one) were made in 3-D but released flat when studios discovered that the craze was dying down after audience complaints of headaches from imperfect projection. These days the process is used only for an occasional exploitation item like The Stewardesses. Too bad. Besides supplying some nostalgic shudders, House of Wax fleetingly suggests that in the right hands, 3-D could have been a good deal more than a stunt...
...stock in Texaco, with a mere 1.3% of its sales to the military. In implying that all military production is immoral-a highly dubious assumption-the report totally ignores the view of those Christians, undoubtedly a majority, who believe that defense still remains a necessity in an all too imperfect world...
...Clockwork Orange, based on the Anthony Burgess novel, is a merciless, demoniac satire in the future imperfect. It posits a world somehow gone berserk, in which there are no real alternatives, only degrees of madness. Kubrick makes the whole thing (as he did in Dr. Strangelove) chillingly and often hilariously believable. Alex, so contemptuously in control, soon becomes a victim of his own lunatic society...