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...campaign's closing week, the Harris poll showed Labor's winning mar gin declining from 7% to 2%, but the Gallup and Marplan polls both showed a continued rise in Labor's edge. Only one sampling, which was conducted by the Opinion Research Center poll, predicted a Tory victory ? but only by a bare margin of 1%. Heath shrugged off all the surveys, insisting that the To ries would win. "The only poll that counts is the one on June 18," he said...
...Japan and the Soviet Union. Kostelanetz first got the idea for the composition by listening to Songs of the Humpback Whale, a recent recording made by Rockefeller University Biologist Dr. Roger Payne and Acoustics Engineer Frank Watlington of Columbia University, and issued by Communications Research Machines Inc. of Del Mar, Calif. The record is part of a growing program initiated by the New York Zoological Society and designed to stir public interest in saving whales from extinction. Says Hovhaness: "We've got to preserve everything we can on this planet. It's God's own little spaceship...
Actually, the chances of any candidate's carrying one big state by a huge mar gin and losing all the others by small ones are tiny indeed...
...images that do work suggest the direction the film should have taken. The first few shots of a nude wrestling match between Birken and Gerald, deep, low-angle, lit by a darkly golden fire. are quite eerie in their implications. (Although, the inevitable pulsing soundtrack and tumultuous camerawork mar the development of the scene.) A shot of a drowned girl, entwined in the arms of her dead lover, as they are washed up onto a muddy shore is equally effective. (Although, it is mistakenly intercut with shots of Birken and Ursula making love. Properly, the omen is directed at Gerald...
...thrived on high wit, low morals and ice-cold hearts. But by Farquhar's day, the twin corrupters of that comedy lurked in the wings-virtue, which would bar both wit and lechery from the stage, and romance, which would open the sluices of sentimentality. Traces of this mar Farquhar's last play, The Beaux' Stratagem...