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With only one player on reserve, the injury-ridden Harvard water polo team destroyed a listless Exeter squad, 14-3, in a weekend meet at the Exeter pool in Exeter, New Hampshire...
...interests and has waged a running battle with Colorado polluters. Grandson of the co-founder of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, young Howard was raised in New York City, took his B.A. at Yale in Russian literature. He has helped add about 30,000 new subscribers to the once listless tabloid (circ. 219,000) since joining it in 1965, making it a real challenger to the flabby Denver Post...
...Chancellor has sunk into fits of melancholy before, but this time the image of a listless Brandt took its toll at the polls. In a series of state and city elections, the S.P.D. suffered setbacks ranging from 6% to 10%, compared with 1970. Experts were predicting that the Socialists would lose a June 9 election in the state of Lower Saxony, even though Brandt has promised to campaign there personally. The most Europe-minded of the Continent's leaders, he was also saddened by the insistence of Britain's new Labor government that it would "renegotiate" the terms...
...hero of the people-with an air of dignified amazement. However, this is a muted Mostel, and somehow he is not enough. Whether the problem lies in trying to capture Joyce onstage or in Burgess Meredith's direction, there are long moments of curious lifelessness, a kind of listless anarchy, the stage business often as flyaway as the Joycean allusions...
This liberal-mindedness on the part of the film makers seems more opportunistic than deeply felt-an attempt, perhaps, to still political criticism of the earlier film. But what really spoils the formula is a thin and meandering script by John Milius and listless direction by Ted Post, whose work cannot stand even glancing comparison with Don Siegel's authoritative handling of Dirty Harry. The film climaxes, as all policiers apparently must, with a car chase, but it is nowhere near as interesting as the successful off-casting of nice Hal Holbrook as a heavy. He is the only...