Word: relentlessness
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...intimidating length (more than 3 ½ hours) and rigidly intimate scope: mostly three characters, a young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a young girl (Franchise Lebrun) and an older woman (Bernadette Lafont), toying with one another, taunting and seducing one another, finally vanquishing one another. The movie is direct and relentless, full of tough insight about the rites of what sometimes passes for love, and fierce in its final impact. Director Jean Eustache wrote the painstakingly accurate script and followed it exactly, though the movie has the flow and spontaneous immediacy of improvisation. Altogether, not a film to rouse a distributor...
...world has turned. New wars have been fought and settled, dictatorships established and overthrown, but Hank Aaron endures. The wonder is not only his staying power but his amazing consistency, which has won the Atlanta Braves outfielder 14 major-league records. Even so, it is his relentless pursuit of the record that has made him at age 39 the single most conspicuous figure in American sports. Last week, 20 seasons older, 30 Ibs. heavier and 2,953 games more experienced than when he hit home run No. 1, Hammerin' Hank drove No. 710 over the left-centerfield wall...
Statistics alone cannot adequately measure the impact of McDonald's on U.S. life. The company's relentless advertising campaign ($50 million budgeted this year) has made the McDonald's jingle, You Deserve a Break Today, almost as familiar as The Star-Spangled Banner. But the chain's managers have wrought their greatest achievement by taking a familiar American institution, the greasy-spoon hamburger joint, and transforming it into a totally different though no less quintessentially American operation: a computerized, standardized, premeasured, superclean production machine efficient enough to give even the chiefs of General Motors food...
Vietnam is not free from war, and Nixon's criminal bombing may resume over Cambodia. Yet even to a skeptic, the overall situation in Indochina seems more peaceful today than it has been since America's original escalation in the early sixties. The relentless aerial bombardment of Laos and of both sections of Vietnam for the past decade, highlighted in a perverse way by the savage terror bombing last Christmas, has ended--perhaps for good...
...rugged as the names imply, a Cambridge-Arlington-Belmont triumvirate which irrepressibly and forcefully peppered opposing netmen with a destructive machine-gun fusillade of goals and attempts, full and deadly, carrying the Crimson ice fortunes to wide and expansive successes, mounting attack after attack, coiling and recoiling with the relentless regularity of a blind and savage dog against an alien cage of restraint, whose cage was a 4 ft. by 6 ft. cubicle squatting at the end of an ice highway, hunched full of glove and stick and defending bulk in which sinew and muscle and the accouterments...