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...scream: "How now, me proud beauty!" But within his conventions Kurosawa is a realist, and when he does a caricature he does it in acid. The Bad Sleep Well is not quite so strong as his strongest pictures, but it has the vulgar energy, the cutting relevance, the mortal moral seriousness of first-rate journalism...
Meanwhile, in another semi-finals contest, number three-seeded Charley Ufford '53, a former Harvard great, lost to Harry Conlon, who had once been U.S. national champion. Conlon "hits harder than any mortal ever has," so Niederhoffer planned his strategy carefully. He kept the ball off the back court and, slowing the game down, won handily, 3-1, taking the tournament, the second biggest in the United States...
Lonely Are the Brave. Man as God made him and a world God never made meet in mortal battle in this simple, painful story of a cowboy (Kirk Douglas) who tangles with 20th century civilization...
...efforts to explain the ups and downs of the stock market may have been looking in the wrong place. Booms and busts, says Psychoanalyst Henry Krystal of Michigan's Wayne State University, are not born in carloading reports or steel-output figures but in the unconscious minds of mortal men. If the economists want to understand better why the market acts the way it does, they had better start examining the customers' egos and keep digging until they hit pay dirt...
Friction leads to abrasion, contusion to concussion, laceration to impalement, dismemberment to disembowelment. We are witness to animals in an arena; and we watch the performance of picadors, banderilleros, and matadors, complete with a climactic, mortal moment-of-truth. The play is, in fact, perhaps best analyzed in terms of the bullfight. I shall spare you this, however, and simply remark that Albee has failed to give his play the aesthetic and artistic from of the bullfight...