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...meet's keenest competition could center on the individual duel between. Harvard's Bruce Jostin and the Elis' Nate Carmell. Jostin and Carmell have comparable best times in both the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle. For Harvard to win the meet, Jostin, like everyone else, will have to come through with a clutch performance...
...ancients," writes William Service, "attributed to the owl great wisdom. I, more careful, attribute to him the keenest appetite to find things out." The same might be said of Service himself. His Owl is less the result of wisdom than of a keen if bemused curiosity. No man can know all about a bird, especially a screech owl who possesses, as the book jacket puts it, the proportions of a beer can and the personality of a bank president. But a year of open-minded daily contact with such a creature is bound to lead to something, and in this...
...this style of film can suggest moral facets of characters and events which one hadn't suspected, and create a world whose moral structure is highly ordered. That Franju does not separate this aim from the entrancing beauty of the world he re-creates, is a tribute to the keenest sensibility among living directors...
Each Sunday night from 7:30 on, in the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, the TV screen is an electronic Valhalla in which Ben Cartwright grapples with the Smothers brothers, Walt Disney with Perry Mason. For millions of viewers, the keenest new prime-time contender is a show-biz nonentity. Nevertheless, as star of the Sam Yorty Show, the mayor of Los Angeles, at 5 ft. 9 in., is a jolly big giant...
...shuffles off the stage at the end of his one-man show, it is as if one were bidding good night to the incorrigible Clemens himself. As penetrating in spirit as it is physically uncanny, this performance is an extraordinary dramatic re-creation of one of Americana's keenest humorists...