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...hand and rumps with the other, a judge crouches in the center of the ring, staring each bleating contestant in the eye. He gets up, walks over and sticks a finger into a sheep's chest to see how firm it is. If firm, the two dozen spectators murmur approval: if the judge's finger sinks deep into the sheep's chest, a groan goes up. After half an hour of prodding and measuring, groaning and murmuring and bleating, the judge straightens up and signals for the Suffolk Sheep Queen to come out and distribute ribbons...
...legendary period for movies: The Conformist, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Five Easy Pieces, Murmur of the Heart, The Wild Bunch, The Godfather, The Sorrow and the Pity. The list supports the idea that America is no longer divided into two publics, the demanding and the undiscerning. Thanks in part to movies, the line between high and popular art has faded into a blur...
...sunglasses, she told Dick Cavett that she did not see "anything wrong with being naive. I see something really wrong with being sophisticated." Son Lance Loud, 21, tossing his hair and playing the homosexual heavy, said, "Sure I'm glad I did it-People call up and murmur things into the phone and then hang up." As for his mother, he said, without the film "she would've been left in the dark about a lot more things. I don't want her to grow up with too many illusions." Why had the family let itself...
Collections multiplied 27 times between 1949 and 1971, and this fiscal year Social Security taxes will bring in about two-thirds as much as individual income taxes. In fact, workers have anted up for past increases with scarcely a murmur of protest, and there seems to be little reason to expect anything different now. Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, expresses amazement at "the tolerance of the public for higher taxes, as long as they are called Social Security contributions...
...Murmur of the Heart. Louis Malle's ripe, witty sketch of indiscreet bourgeois charm in 50's France is far more deeply thought out than other period pieces on adolescence. Lea Massari plays complex voluntary of a mother. As other French directors stagnate and repeat themselves, Malle may yet emerge as the most original and least gimmicky of the bunch. Be wary: the film plays alongside Heat, the latest by Paul Morrissey (Flesh, Trash). His second stand as surrogate Andy Warhol is full of grotesque actors and grotesque sex which boil down not to the grotesque but to the merely...