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That sound you hear is of checkbooks closing all over Hollywood. The books belong to the smart money; the reason for their action is The Last Movie* by Dennis Hopper-the same Dennis Hopper who recently opened the checkbook:, with Easy Rider. The faults of that film are legendary-the paranoid swagger, the inept drug trips, the comicbook heroism. But the film also shared with other examples of naive art an undisciplined energy and a curious magnetism. Its minuscule production cost (under $500,000) and giant grosses (over $50 million) made it the Volkswagen of the American film...
Last Saturday, Cornell overwhelmed Lafayette and Rider College in Easton, Pa. They defeated Lafayette 15-47 and Rider...
Burk Uzzle, a former Life photographer and current member of Magnum Photos, Inc., leads us on a tour of pop and chrome America. Oblique lines on a parking lot lead us to a lone horse-rider on blacktop; an arrow directs us past a rooster on a traffic island. Emphasizing design and pure form, Uzzle illustrates an econoline van making it a highly disciplined composition--circular wheels, white slab body that flows into each white side of the frame, and black geometric solids surround the white...
Down Cycles. One other difference from traditional polo: the governing U.S. Bicycle Polo Association finds it necessary to outlaw "riding off," bumping another rider, a common practice in pony polo. "A pony is somewhat resilient and can bounce," explains the association's newsletter, "but a bicycle is an uncompromising animal and, if approached to the bouncing point, will promptly tangle itself with whatever it can lay its pedals...
...inexpensive enough for almost anyone, most of its aficionados so far are relatively affluent. In Southampton, for example, the crowd is very social indeed, but weekday practice sessions in Manhattan's Central Park are somewhat more democratic: volunteers are allowed to join the fun when one of the riders becomes winded. Occasionally a pony-polo expert decides to give the game a try. He is usually disappointed. "It's easier on horseback," a high-ranking rider from Colombia discovered last week. "You don't have to pedal the horse...