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Addressing supporters in Houston yesterday, Bush said his victory showed voters realized that he, not Reagan, is the only Republican able to defeat Carter in the general election. The Pennsylvania primary pit Reagan against Bush without other Republicans for the first time this year...
...spared in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's seven-hour misty epic, Our Hitler, least of all the audience. Syberberg seeks to resurrect Hitler and pit him against the world he left behind--a filmic judgment day for Der Fuhrer--and the audience is forced to look into its own eyes. Confusion. No connections. No conclusions. "The results are exhilarating, confounding, and not at all closeended," critic David A. Rosse from the University of California at Berkeley, correctly pointed out. Ultimately, your judgment of Syberberg's Hitler hinges on how you judge your most intimate self...
Hitler reappears later after he sinks back into Wagner's grave. He is a puppet. A mannequin. A marionette. A ventriloquist's doll. "Is this the world you pit against mine?" he asks. "In the United Nations, 110 out of 159 countries torture and murder, so each time the U.N. votes, a purely democratic majority votes for inhumanity. Without the extinction of the Indians, the progress in America would have been impossible. I am immortal as long as the world exists," he says, as the ventriloquist undresses him through a series of suits and costumes. "Well done...
...Crimson's next encounter will pit the varsity eight against Princeton in the annual Compton Cup race next Saturday in New Jersey. Harvard hasn't lost the Compton since 1962, and the Tigers--losers to Navy earlier this year--stand little chance of reversing the trend this year...
Firemen in gas masks shoveled debris off the track to help the liquid drain off into the pit, from which workers later pumped it into a waiting tank truck...