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...some states the highway patrol officially classifies him as a pedestrian. In others he is designated "bicycle." Actually, Clint Shaw is a man who is roller-skating across the U.S. from New York to Los Angeles, a 3,100-mile odyssey that he began May 4 and aims to complete in 56 days. An engaging, superbly conditioned ironworker from Victoria, British Columbia, Shaw, 32, who is 6 ft. 1 in., weighs 198 Ibs. and resembles Clint Eastwood, skates about twelve hours at a stretch and has logged as much as 78 miles a day. Previously, he had cross-skated Canada...
...event, Griffith is no preacher of bland impartiality. He argues that newsmen should have a sense of commitment and responsibility, provided that their general convictions do not cloud their judgment in handling specific stories. He urges readers to "suspect an indifference that calls itself impartiality; it is the pedestrian asset of secondrraters...
...least half of each year's 55,500 automobile deaths and half of the 1 million major injuries suffered in auto accidents can be traced directly to a driver or pedestrian "under the influence...
Faulkner's life exudes a mysterious aura which the pedestrian and meticulous treatment by Blotner fails to convey. Those cherished myths--the rum runs in the Gulf of Mexico, Sherwood Anderson's promise to get Soldier's Pay published if he did not have to read it--are set straight as if "for the record." Pleasant Sunday picnics come across as only data...
...Pedestrian broods over German guilt rather too prettily. It is the third film directed by Maximilian Schell, and it is serious - perhaps excessively so - in purpose and demeanor. The Pedestrian is riddled with angst and festooned with a lot of fussy, soft-focus photography that makes its sober speculations on national culpability look like the latest thing in a trendy magazine: "Germany - Forgive and Forget" or "The Fatherland: Two Decades of Remorse." The subject of the film is a prominent German industrialist who may or may not have participated in executing most of a Greek village. His complicity in this...