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...Hunt and Peck. In the second half of Tora! Tora! Tora!, the bromides stop fizzing and the cliches are hushed. In a brilliant restaging, Japanese planes cut through the cloud cover. There, gliding beneath them, is a civilian biplane, looking like a goldfish among sharks. It is the film's last laugh. Trapped in that jug-necked harbor, the men of the Arizona, the regulars on easy duty in Schofield Barracks, are pathetically vulnerable targets. An airplane desperately taxis down its runway, straining for liftoff. A bomb scores a direct hit. The pilot becomes a gout of smoke...
...ADRIEN B. PECK Thermopolis...
Toward the end of World War II, Behaviorist B.F. Skinner was working on a similar project for the U.S. Navy -using pigeons. Skinner was evolving a kind of majority-vote bombardiering, using three pigeons on the theory that two at least would peck correctly on the left or right of a target screen. Then, as Skinner recalls, "the Manhattan Project came along and there was no need for pinpoint bombing...
...films. Nonetheless, last week in Paris, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, 81, received an honorary Oscar for his contributions (the dialogue and the music) to L'Amour de la Vie, a movie based on reminiscences of his life. Asked if the pianist could also be considered an actor, Gregory Peck, an Oscar winner himself (To Kill a Mockingbird in 1963), who presented the statuette to Rubinstein, replied: "Good Lord, yes. He's a much better actor than...
...book, and it is now raising nervous laughs in the twitchy precincts of Madison Avenue. First recorded on tape, then edited by Sometime Author Charles Sopkin and published last week by Simon and Schuster, the book is an earnest effort by Delia Femina to buttress his reputation as the Peck's Bad Boy of advertising. At 33, he heads his own agency and is one of the more abrasive of the young "creatives" who have risen fast in a mercurial business...