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GRAND PRIX. Formula One racing cars are the stars of this revved-up and spun-out (three hours) ode to autos. Sixteen camera teams shot 1,000,000 feet of film, much of it at last year's Grand Prix races, and Director John Frankenheimer has fashioned a heart-stopping movie slowed down only by the romantic detours of the drivers (James Garner, Yves Montand) and their camp followers (Eva Marie Saint, Francoise Hardy...
GRAND PRIX. Formula One racing cars are the stars of this revved-up and spun-out (three hours) ode to autos. Sixteen camera teams shot 1,000,000 feet of film, much of it at last year's Grand Prix races, and Director John Frankenheimer has fashioned a heart-stopping movie slowed down only by the romantic detour of the drivers (James Garner, Yves Montand) and their camp followers (Eva Marie Saint, Francoise Hardy...
...longer lines intrude from a forgotten ode...
...stories during the year that provoked especially heavy reader response were our selection of America's best teachers; the story and psychological analysis of the Texas mass murderer, Charles Whitman; the cover story on Danny Escobedo and the drastic changes taking place in U.S. criminal law; and the ode to middle age, starring Lauren Bacall. Essay moved into its second year with its usual catholicity of concern, ranging from today's philosophers to suicide. This week the section salutes a new year by attempting a new device: an essay in play form, written by Stefan Kanfer...
This meticulously screened group tackles writing assignments varying from the conventional (formally analyze Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale") to the bizarre (describe the taste of a Canada Mint). One teaching fellow runs his class like a "watered-down graduate seminar" assigning pairs of students to prepare a book for class dissection each week. Another has given a series of lectures on six schools of literary criticism...