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...Knife in the Water is a Polish thriller as sharp as a knife and as smooth as water. Director Roman Polanski, 30, puts two lusty men and one busty woman aboard a small sailboat, throws them a knife, and for the next 90 minutes lets the tension build, build, build (see cover picture...
...Keys one day, his mother asked him what that look on his face meant. "There's an eight-foot dying dolphin in the fish pen," said Sandy. Sure enough, there in the pen was Flipper, with a scuba diver's spear stuck in him. "Get me a knife and the iodine," said Mom. Before long Flipper was cavorting, grinning, dancing on his tail, laughing a porpoise laugh that sounded something like a very old automobile starting on a very cold day-ugga-ugga-ugga-ugga, chug-chug...
...Argentina, one motorist insults another, and the offended party bursts from his car with knife drawn. In Peru's recent presidential elections, the three leading candidates presented themselves more as messiahs than politicians, and it was not accidental that each was the founder of his own party. In Mexico, convivial gossip about a prominent man inevitably rolls around to his casa chica -the love nest where he keeps his mistress. "We expect them to have mistresses," says one wealthy married Mexican lady. "After all, they...
...gummy-eyed from a dark night of the soul. Baker never writes a noun without leashing a seeing-eye adjective to it, never overlooks a cliché, never fails to labor an image ("The windshield wiper describing its captive arc back and forth, back and forth, like that descending knife in the story of the pit and the pendulum...
...Robert Lee Daniels, a Negro who had been arrested for "drunken driving" on the Fourth of July and had been in jail during the night when Charlie Ware had been shot. He reported he was awake at the time the shooting occurred and had seen the Sheriff put a knife into Charlie Ware's hand. He then said he saw the Sheriff step back into the shadow of the trees and cry "Hold it," and shoot; again "Hold it," another shot; again, "Hold it," a third shot...