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...sweepstakes. When murder outs in a Continental art film, it is always with a twist. In Krzysztof Kieslowski's doom-dreary A Short Film About Killing , (winner of the third-place Jury Prize), a young man hails a cab and pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast of roast viscount. Like David Lean, Oliveira turns 80 this year. Like Luis Bunuel...
...study, Drs. Denis Madden, John Lion and Manoel Penna of the University of Maryland School of Medicine conclude that psychiatrists may have a definite tendency to stir violence in their patients. In a poll of 115 psychiatrists working in hospitals, clinics and in private practice, the Maryland team found that no fewer than 48 admitted that they had been assaulted by patients on one or more occasions. Most of the psychiatrists agreed that upon reflection, they themselves had probably, if unwittingly, provoked the attacks...
Leader of capoeira's transformation into respectability is Manoel Does Reis Machado, now 71, who is called Mestre (Master) Bimba by his devotees. A renowned Salvador rowdy as a youth, Bimba took up capoeira seriously in his late teens and after several prison terms opened an academy to propagate it. In the mid-'30s, after he whipped three rivals on the same afternoon, his reputation began to spread...
Brazil's outside right, Manoel ("Garrincha") dos Santos, nudged the ball delicately. A French defender charged. Casually, Garrincha faked his man out of his shoes and set up a neat play in front of the French goal. Then Garrincha took a return pass and booted away at the corner of the goal. He missed by inches, but the crowd settled back with a satisfied sigh. The final score (Brazil 5, France 2) was a foregone conclusion. Brazil's soft, pinpoint passes, incredibly skilled dribbling and booming scoring shots added up to the finest play yet seen...
After the Fact. In Rio de Janeiro, Butcher Manoel Silveira Merinho, arrested for selling his customers second-grade meat at first-grade prices, was released when the station-house cat ate the evidence...