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EQUILIBRIUM is a melodramatic vignette about a French aerialist (Kirk Douglas) and his partner (Pier Angeli). Although it has some fine, dizzy trapeze shots, its high-flying theme is mostly grounded in earthbound dramatics...
...individual performances of its three lovely leading ladies. Red-haired Ballerina Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer dances gracefully and acts appealingly as the tragic heroine of The Jealous Lover. Leslie (Lili) Caron brings a fresh, bright-eyed personality to the role of the young governess. And pensive Pier (Teresa) Angeli, with her child's face and Garbo-like eyes, gives the part of the trapeze artist a passionate sensitivity that is only vaguely hinted at in the script and direction...
...says. His name in Spanish means "wolf"-"lone wolf," he explains with relish. Evenings, he says, when the last of the day's 500 cables have been answered, "I like to walk alone from my office to the harbor. There I can sit on the edge of a pier, gaze at the lapping waves, and think about the future of sugar...
Full Speed Ahead. Her lights blacked out, the Raman scraped a pier, narrowly missed ramming a smaller vessel, and set off down the River Weser with the tightly lashed tugboat still bumping at her side. At a sharp bend in the channel, the Raman neatly dropped anchor in the darkness, pirouetted about the anchor chain, then hoisted anchor and headed for the open sea, 50 miles downstream. The five crewmen scrambled up from the tugboat and cut it adrift. Belching black smoke, the Raman gathered speed while her captain, Rifat Onder, turned a cold. Nelson-like eye to every signal...
...Chicago, the University of Chicago basketball team, after a losing streak of 45 straight games over a three-year span, finally won one, 65-52, over a team from the Navy Pier Branch of the University of Illinois...