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...cryptic answer establishes a bone-deep difference between the two men that totally belies a similarity of uniforms. John Saxon is excellent as the war lover, and Robert Redford digs beneath his own blond good looks to mine compellingly into the nature of goodness itself. While War Hunt is lean on frontline fighting, one head-punching artillery barrage that lasts perhaps three minutes of screen time stings with a combat reality few war movies achieve in hours...
Equally interesting to the connoisseur and to the serious student of art history may be the numerous works by painters not completely drawn up in the sweep of stylistic progression but unmistakably and sometimes unwillingly influenced by it. The coloring of lean Leon Gerome's "Diana, chasseresse" demonstrates the power of a limited palette, Gerome, the master of Eakins constructs a mystic vision in unusual tones of blue and silver, evoking a half-horrible world be remembrance that anticipate surrealism...
...Lean, suave, incomparably tanned, he never wears makeup and has gotten steadily better looking. More or less successfully, he spends his real life pretending he is Gary Grant. Open Paris Match, for example, and there, in all likelihood, will be a picture of him in a sexy Italian car zooming east of Nice on La Moyenne Corniche-the same route he followed with Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief. He is the darling of the internationals-a janizary in Kelly's Monegasque toy palace, a captive treasure among the potentates and popinjays of the Onassis floating salon...
...power last May. Then, he claims, the National Revolutionary Council, the quasi-parliamentary body of F.L.N., backed him against Benkhedda, who simply ignored the council's wishes. Ben Bella was persuaded not to bring the fight out into the open until independence was gained. Meanwhile he joined with lean, tuberculous Colonel Houari Boumedienne, F.L.N. army commander outside Algeria, in working out a plot to seize power. On independence day, F.L.N. army detachments from Tunisia and Morocco were to cross into Algeria, declare the Provisional Government invalid, and call on Ben Bella to form a new government...
...disposing of $600-$800 million worth of stockpile materials each year-about eight times the present disposal rate. But legislation will be necessary to put the plan into effect-and a lot of people who are fond of the fat cousin may fight to prevent him from becoming too lean...