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WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Adam's Rib (1949), with Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell and David Wayne...
...than anybody in either league. Worse yet, they have, in three months, suffered 29 "disabling" injuries -meaning that each was bad enough to put the injured party on the bench or in a hospital. Centerfielder Willie Davis, who batted .294 and stole 42 bases last year, has a rib separation; Leftfielder Tommy Davis, the National League's batting champion in 1962 and 1963, has already missed eight weeks with a broken ankle...
...stand there and shiver with him rather than step out into the crowd and point, and laugh, or look a bit bemused and tut-tut to my neighbor. Because some big gas is building up in Mailer's chest, straining against his rib cage, straining to explode out any orifice into a dazzling fireworks of vision, or prophecy, or whatever those fireworks are that naked writers with gaseous insides hope to release in testament to their genius...
...made out of Adam's rib. Literal acceptance of such Biblical statements is the hallmark of fundamentalism, and south Georgia is a stronghold of it. Last week twelve Episcopal bishops from as far away as Montana launched a "Bishops' Crusade for Christ" in south Georgia, attacking "anthropoid religion," as H. L. Mencken used to call...
...Murray Schisgal, sends three very modern and morose souls through a slapstick, tongue-wagging, satirical inferno of cocktail-party griefs. Under Mike Nichols' brilliantly inventive direction, Actors Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin produce constant and rib-aching hilarity...