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Finally, Slayton tugged on a large handle-like latch, and the door swung open, exposing the smiling faces of the two waiting Russians. Stafford called out ebulliently, "Tovarich [friend]!" Leonov's reply: "Very, very happy to see you. How are things...
...story can be quickly told, although not, unfortunately, by Nichols or his pseudonymous Scenarist Adrien Joyce (Carol Eastman, who wrote Five Easy Pieces). The movie is barely 90 minutes long, but it lingers badly. Oscar and Nicky latch on to a rich girl (Stockard Channing) whose worldly goods they hope to inherit. She is the heiress to a sanitary-napkin fortune, and to get her money one of the boys must marry her. Although Nicky has eyes for the girl, he is already wed. This leaves Oscar, who consents out of deference both to the caper and to the Mann...
Exley's major problem is his inability to latch on--to his wife or jobs or American life. Somehow he was never bequeathed the necessary ambition or stamina. Because he has no roots, he travels, and Notes is full of encounters with odd characters that evoke a bittersweet mixture of sympathy and contempt. The strangest of the lot is Mr. Blue, an aging door-to-door salesman still capable of doing 50 push-ups on request, who lives with a six-foot woman gymnastics teacher. But Exley also makes more "ordinary" encounters memorable. And the web of brawls begun over...
...with a load of orphans andaccompanying adults. Less than an hour later, the plane crashed in a paddy, killing 206 of the more than 300 passengers aboard. Last week TIME learned that Government investigators have agreed on the probable cause of the disaster: a defective latch on the door of the rear loading platform...
Drawings composed of unspecified shapes, even if they are carefully conceived, run the risk of seeming flat and dull, not because they fail to give us something to recognize and latch onto, but because they lack a certain attention to organization. Many of Kline's and Pollock's patterns seem repetitive and senseless because they have no apparent structure, even though the artists might have brooded over their drawings for weeks. And the work of these five artists is most captivating when it reveals a consistent, internal structure. One can't help feeling that art, no matter how expressive...