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...sees about eight movies a week-"mostly through my own choice"-including oldies shown on TV and others occasionally on his home 16-mm. system. When reviewing a new film of unusual interest, Cocks might sit through it five times (though not necessarily consecutively) before rendering judgment...
...north of Saigon. The next day the Communists launched a strong counterattack, which ended in failure. In spite of repeated air strikes by South Vietnamese Skyraiders, however, the two neighboring posts remained in the hands of the Communists. From advance positions the North Vietnamese fired more than 40 122-mm. rockets at Bien Hoa airbase. The rockets hit a detention center for women prisoners, killing...
...convoy reached a bunker, behind which and out of sight stood a battery of Soviet-made 122-mm. guns. When they opened fire, we saw their shells explode inside Israeli lines about one mile away. "It is a daily thing," a Syrian officer said. "We try to stop them from improving their positions." It was not too long before the Israelis responded. American-made 155-mm. shells burst on either side of the bunker...
...viewing have changed. Emphasis on a director's work is now something to be done in school. The special film festivals are run at Harvard-Epworth Church, or at the Houses, or in class--but no matter how good the programming is there, the effect of a 16-mm print on a portable screen isn't the same as in a real theater. And the audience has a different attitude, too, with none of the spirit that can arise surprisingly often out of a heterogeneous group at the Brattle or the Welles...
...only quick glimpse preserved on film is a 20 foot, 16 mm color sequence made by Sasquatch stalker Roger Patterson in 1967. The first few seconds are blurred and shaky, as Patterson, thrown by his horse, runs toward the Sasquatch and tries to frame. Then there are a few dramatic seconds of clarity, as the Sasquatch strides along a river bed. At the end of the sequence she (the sex is suggested, by hairy, pendulous breasts) walks placidly back into the underbrush...