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...prepares for the passing of Mao, 81, and the older generation of revolutionary leaders. Many China watchers believe the moderates are already revising or even abandoning some of Mao's precepts. One recent instance of this was the rehabilitation of the former Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Lo Jui-ching, 69. As one of the initial victims of the Cultural Revolution, Lo was publicly humiliated by fanatic young Red Guards as far back as 1966. He was notorious in those days as an advocate of building a modern army equipped with sophisticated weapons rather than relying...
Only One Pitch Left. In Yanks, Duke Bronkowski (Tony Lo Bianco) is on the mound, and he has shuddering intimations of mortality on that slab. He talks to himself continuously in an erratic monologue that is both manic and depressive: "Here I am 39 years old, and my hero is still Holden Caulfield." At the top of the seventh inning, the Duke is working on a no-hitter, but he has only one pitch left in his eroded repertory: a low slider. As he muses, in Archie Bunker fashion, on how much he detests the ethnic and racial back grounds...
...with in the guise of rollicking humor is to treat sport as a metaphor for the perils of imminent middle age. It is not the batters whom Duke hates the most but the loss of physical powers, of fame, of the only work he is qualified to do. Tony Lo Bianco captures every nuance of this, and his evening on the mound is a dramatically blazing no-hitter...
...shock is a proliferating film subspecies: the horror flick that will do anything, show anything, to churn a stomach and raise some neck hair. The trend started several years back with Night of the Living Dead, wherein marauding zombies dined on freshly slain humans. The movie was made on lo cation around Pittsburgh - that sounds like the first line of a joke but it's a fact - employing local actors and a great many spare parts from nearby butcher shops. The movie won a campy-seedy reputation and turned a nice profit. Imitations have ranged from Andy...