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...Murrow's solemn, dramatic style of news delivery has gone out of fashion in TV today. The newscasters of strive for a lighter touch in the manner of Huntley and Brinkley. But Murrow perfectly suited his anxious era. As he himself once explained: "The timing was right and the instrument powerful...
...Sanjuro lacks the organic character of Kurosawa's best movies. The violence and the comedy are disproportionate to the story, and are never quite integrated in it. This is not to say that Sanjuro is a bad movie. It isn't. But it belongs to a lighter level of entertainment than Rashomon or Seven Samurai. The story-line itself has no less potential that that of Seven Samurai; but here Kurosawa has chosen to keep it exaggerated and farcical rather than to develop it in depth...
Ingenious Theory. What was missing from the mathematical calculations, Dr. Eckert thinks, is a vital assumption: the moon has no heavy core like the earth's. Instead, it must have a heavy shell with lighter material inside. This would make the moon more reluctant to turn on its axis, and the extra resistance would account for its computer-calculated shift of orbit...
Another way to keep in shape is to take a two-week Slimcruise from London, which promises that travelers will return 10 Ibs. lighter after daily sessions with dietitian and masseur. In a way, the trip is also a sadists' special; friends and spouses of the slimmers can go along for the ride, do not have to join in the calorie counting-and pay $42 less than the suffering slimmers...
...other post-season tournaments, Harvard's Howie Henjyoji was second in the 114 pound division of the Eastern AAU Tournament. In the championship match, Henjyoji drew with his opponent, but lost the title because Olympic rules award a drawn match to the lighter...