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Then Fellini's attention turns again, and he makes a feeble attempt at wartime documentary. The cater-wauling crowd scuttles at the sound of an air-raid siren, while the camera cuts to a panicked woman running down a deserted Roman street as shells explode in the distance. But every time Fellini comes close to confronting political reality, he shies away and returns with relief to the philandering life of Rome. He is content with an imaginative evocation of the sordidness of fascist Italy, but anything like explanation or analysis is far removed from this documentary...
...public, meanwhile, seemed interested only in devising new and more fun-filled ways of beating the TV ban. Some 400 fans who were watching the Dolphin game at the Miami Playboy Club (which has a space-age antenna) were interrupted by a police raid that closed the club for not having a license to operate before 5 p.m. on Sundays. Undaunted, diehard "Dol-fans" found a long extension cord and hauled a TV set outside, where they sat under a spreading sea grape tree, munching Bunny Burgers and watching the game while the traffic whizzed by on Biscayne Boulevard...
...GREAT NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA RAID. An odd and original western made by Philip Kaufman, the most arresting new talent of the year...
Most dramatic live moments: the tragic terrorist raid at the Munich Olympics, which erupted during ABC's impressive running coverage of the sports events...
...Stephenson, the London-born son of a British father and a Northern Irish mother. After serving in the Royal Air Force at the end of World War II, he joined an I.R.A. unit in Britain and was subsequently imprisoned for six years for his part in an abortive arms raid on an army barracks. When he emerged in 1959, with his name Gaelicized, he moved to Ireland to devote his life to the I.R.A. In 1969, when the organization split apart over how to conduct its campaign against British rule of Northern Ireland, MacStiofáin became leader...