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When they finish their studying before 11 p.m. students somehow travel the half mile to Mike's Club in Annandale. This is a place to sip alcohol and munch hamburgers in an atmosphere dominated by the juke-box and low lights. Here students will often encounter members of the faculty and administration as well as the nearby Red Hook High School basketball team. With genial waitresses and table-to-table spirit, Bardians find it easy to dispose of long weeknights and even longer weekends...
...wild Ones cleared the juke box easily and were in the South stretch aimed for the bar when the track became cluttered with wildly cheering students and dates. The cyclists backed smoothly out of the blockade and were careening down the center single at two m.p.m. when Jim showed up. The cycle then took off towards the Wursthaus...
...Wild One (Stanley Kramer; Columbia) is a percussion piece played on the moviegoer's nerves, a kind of audiovisual fugue in which the themes of boogie and terror heap up in alternations of juke-yowl and gear-gnash to a climax of violence-and then fall patly silent, leaving the audience to console its disordered pulse and unsweat itself from the seat...
...Washington Daily News set off a front-page editorial salvo against the current juke-box assault on the ramparts of faith. "Blaring out of the boxes and rasping out of the radio," said the News, "is an unceasing stream of songs about lovers meeting and parting within the sight and sound of mission bells, ladies left sobbing in chapels and strident testimonials to the serenity to be found in the little church in some quaint little old fishing village down Mexico way.* Never have so many done so much whimpering and moaning and screeching in the name of deep...
...leer at the native girls as if they were so many Dorothy Lamours, but tells the story with a simple directness that matches the islanders' disarming ways. And Composer Dimitri Tiomkin has written a haunting melody that should do as well as his High Noon theme on the juke boxes, even if it is not up to South Pacific...