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Krasner is charged with making the battling ram used in the January 15, 1970 takeover by the Rosa Luxembourg chapter of SDS at M.I.T...
...persuaded the inhabitants of a remote village-who had never seen a motion-picture camera-to perform their lives without a trace of self-consciousness or restraint. As a result, watching Ramparts of Clay is like looking at the sun-almost unendurable for long. The ritual slaughter of a ram, for instance, becomes a cataract of blood and pain...
...huge siege catapults hurled fireballs through the air toward the castle. The climactic battle scene in a new film version of Shakespeare's Macbeth was under way. As black smoke billowed into the sky, the extras threw down their camouflage and charged the spiky fortifications with a battering ram and scaling ladders. Exciting stuff? "These epic scenes bore me to death," said Director Roman Polanski. "The real stuff is in the studio, where you can get into your characters...
...later years, says Khrushchev, even Stalin grew to fear his fellow Georgian and the power he wielded as absolute master of the vast Cheka, or secret-police, organization. The sweeping postwar purge of the Leningrad party, Khrushchev believes, was part of a scheme masterminded by Beria and his "battering ram," former Premier Georgy Malenkov; the object was to wreck the careers of a troika of promising young men whom they regarded as a threat to their own eventual ascendancy. Two of those men, N.A. Voznesensky and A.A. Kuznetsov, were arrested and shot. The third, says Khrushchev, "was hanging...
...collision coverage for any car that could withstand a 5 m.p.h. crash without front-or rear-end damage. So far there have been no takers. Criticizing Detroit's 1971 models, Allstate Chairman Judson Branch complains: "Look at the bumpers! Still tucked against the sheet metal: a perfect battering ram and shock transmitter. Another model year down the drain as far as sturdier cars...