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...airport. Amin eats the flesh of an honest judge he has ordered killed. Perhaps Patel too lovingly details the baroque torture, and Joseph Olita's unsteady command of the acting craft often makes Amin seem too cuddly a cannibal. Still, the film serves as an effective comic-book primer on the most colorful mass murderer...
...weapons have made war obsolete and world government imperative. Astonishingly, some 40 new books on nuclear issues are scheduled to be published before the end of this year; Pocket Books is rushing into bookstores with 100,000 copies of Nuclear War: What's in It for You ?, a paperback primer on the subject, written by Roger Molander, founder of Ground Zero, a nuclear-education group...
...Proctoring means keeping an open mind" also kept popping up at the orientation sessions, but as the hordes march back from their first encounter with Sebastian Sandwiches at the Union, the caste lines are already becoming clear. A quick primer on how the nation's eleventh grade elite arranges itself...
...screenplay, adapted by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee from their play of the same name, sounds like a third-grade primer on Constitutional Law, replete with metaphors for an eight-year-old. "You can't turn the law into a straightjacket," feisty liberal Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) tells arch-conservative bench-mate Ruth Loomis (Jill Clayburgh). "It must be a suit of clothes you can move around in." With this profound thought as a guideline, the movie dashes madly from issue to issue, like a tourist with an hour to spend on all of the national monuments...
...have taxed many a math teacher, the test left the youngsters, especially the Americans, totally unimpressed. "This was a letdown," complained Harvard-bound Benjamin Fisher, 18, of New York City, who said that the exam was far too easy for so important a contest. "I was insulted." Added Jeremy Primer, 16, of Maplewood, N.J.: "It was a joke...