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...Yank and Pluck...
...both comedy and tragedy, most of the time it flutters droopily at the level of stale melodrama. If there's little genuine humor here, there's even less heartfelt agony. Even the climactic pre-castration scene, replete with lines like "Is it so reprehensible to be human?" and "I pluck out the eye that offends me" is so overdone it falls completely flat. Ralph Martin, as Hasty, the tutor, doesn't help matters any by giving a generally lackluster performance that makes his sudden access of emotion in this sequence seem violently out of place. Bland and mechanical throughout most...
...E.D.T. on July 24 after nine days aloft, Apollo is scheduled to come down in the Pacific some 345 miles west of Honolulu, where choppers from the helicopter carrier New Orleans will be ready to pluck the men and capsule out of the sea. Almost certainly, it will be the last such splashdown. In the future U.S. astronauts will touch down on jjmways, using the space shuttle-a cross between plane and rocket-scheduled for its first test flight...
Battling against the oily tides of history, the publishing industry has decided to exploit the Arabs. A certain amount of pluck is necessary. By next year, who knows? Arab interests may have bought into the American omni-corps that own so many publishing houses these days...
Said Arafat: "If we return now to the historical root of our cause, we do so because present at this very moment in our midst are those who, while they occupy our homes, as their cattle graze in our pastures and as their hands pluck the fruit from our trees, claim at the same time that we are disembodied spirits, fictions without presence, without traditions or future...