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...stalks his victim toward a narrow byway where he can still her screams with chloroform. Wyler coolly, almost perversely, manipulates audience sympathy when Clegg tries to fob off an unexpected visitor while water seeps down from an upstairs bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English night, a bid for freedom that ends as a muddy, bloody wrestling match. Though Author Fowles's harrowing final chapters are only capsuled on film, The Collector, even with its intelligence and insight curtailed, still pays off handsomely...
...relaxed and confident McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, yesterday confronted some of his faculty and student critics. He told an overflow audience in Lowell Lecture Hall that the number of American troops in South Vietnam may be increased by 50 per cent to meet a Vietcong offensive in a critical period of combat during the months ahead...
...Contrary to the impression left by your article "The Black-Banders," there are numerous campus ministers, faculty members, undergraduates, and graduate students disagreeing with our nation's present foreign policy who are neither disheveled nor degenerate. Here at Duke University, an overflow crowd heard four of this university's leading professors take issue with our policy in Southeast Asia. As moderator for five hours of that debate, I saw no hooting or jeering. I am convinced that even though those who are at odds with our war efforts in Southeast Asia are in the minority (at least...
...there is any sure sign of the decline of American civilization, it is its musical taste. While radio stations and night clubs overflow with hillbillies and rock-and-roll singers, jazz musicians--who are making America's first significant contribution to serious music--are too often without jobs. In virtually every city, a general decline has been evident. For example...
...other cities were not without fault, Whitmore noted. "Raw sewage has been observed flowing from Cambridge sewers into the river at a point between Lars Anderson Bridge and the Weld Boathouse," he wrote. "This may well be the result of lack of capacity of the sewers in periods when overflow is required...