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...asking whether men and women had ever bathed there together. The horrified guide said, "Oh, no, no!" He then added that women had been allowed to bathe but separately. In Israel, she toured the fortress at Masada where Jewish zealots made a suicidal last stand against the Roman Legion in A.D. 73. Later she helicoptered to the ruins of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. Near the site, she chatted in fluent French with a Franciscan friar...
...come away more instructed than entertained. David Rintels' script smacks of American hagiology: "I speak for the poor, the weak," says Fonda, sounding perilously like the Statue of Liberty. For all Fonda's skill and Darrow's charm, the mind wanders sometimes, as during the American Legion's "I Speak for Democracy" contest...
With that kind of overpowering skill, Walton has become the most successful college athlete of his generation. His achievements, by now, are legion and legend: his team ran up the longest winning streak in college history (88 games); counting an unexpected loss to Oregon State in a rematch with that school last Friday night, U.C.L.A. has lost just twice in three years of Walton's varsity play; it has won two N.C.A.A. championships and a third is expected next month. Walton himself has a personal won-lost record of 148-2 (reaching back to his junior year in high...
...cease with the death of Stalin. What should surprise us is the fact that while we are momentarily outraged by the injustice done to one great man, we forget or ignore the grinding tyranny under which Soviet citizens live every day. Defenders of Solzhenitsyn are properly legion, but who has defended Raiza Palathnic, Slyvia Zalmanson, Sinyavsky and Daniels, the four Jewish dissidents convicted last week to hard labor, the Estonians arrested yesterday for the crime of wanting to visit their relatives, the Crimean Tatars, current victims of Soviet genocide and the tens of millions of others whose names have...
THURSDAY: Marlowe. 1970. One of a legion of films made from Raymond Chandler's private-eye novels, this one falls flat in the fast company. James Garner is just not a very credible Marlowe for those who have seen Bogart in "The Big Sleep." For good Marlowe, see Elliott Gould in "The Long Goodbye" at the Harvard Square this week. CH.7. 11:30 p.m. Color...