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...know what Lloyd's going rates are, but Paul Ford ought to insure his stomach for about twice as much as Marlene has coming to her if her legs get scratched. Ford has the most eloquent pot in show business, and it'd help me unwind a whole lot quicker in the evenings if I knew that his abdomen was in good hands. I mean, this guy has a Method stomach. All he has to do is stand up and you know that he's playing to perfection a crabby, self-dramatizing, infinitely egotistical (and very funny) petty tyrant...
Repeatedly Cordell badgered his superiors for helicopters to ease his supply problem, to facilitate medical evacuation, and to react quicker against Viet Cong attacks. Finally, early this month, five whirlybirds arrived. Last week Cordell helicoptered over the jungle on the lookout for Red guerrillas, who farther south were being buffeted by a massive government offensive against the Viet Cong stronghold of Tayninh province, 50 miles northwest of Saigon. The government mission was a failure; forewarned, the Reds slipped away into the bush, lost only 45 men killed in seven days. But in the central highlands the Viet Cong did exact...
Only two heavyweight championship fights in boxing history have ended quicker.* And none has seemed more of a mismatch. It took Liston just 2 min. 6 sec. of the first round to club Floyd Patterson into oblivion and install himself as the new king of a tarnished sport. He accomplished it without even trying. A series of deceptively mild left jabs pried Patterson out of his peekaboo crouch. Three times the ineffectual champion attempted to clinch; contemptuously Listen shoved him away. At last, Liston bounced a left hook off Patterson's head, followed it with a chopping right...
...minutes of the first round with an awesome barrage of body blows that tore the defending champion apart. Weighing twenty-five pounds more than his opponent, the immense Liston never gave anyone the idea that he was going to lose. He missed a couple of tremendous swings against the quicker person as the round opened. After 2:00 minutes, however, he connected with a short right to the head, putting the former champ off balance...
Furthermore, La Notte outstrips Antonioni's last work, L'Avventura, largely because of its quicker pace and more startling scene shifts. One defect of L'Avventura was the sameness of the light that infused each scene. Not so with La Notte: first the dazzling glare of sunlight reflected from the steel and glass structures of the city, then the artificial whiteness of a hospital room, then the shadows by a wall, a continuously changing field of intensities that keep one's attention riveted on the screen...