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...someone start to have sympathy for the suburbs, but in attempting to remedy the balance The People Next Door falls flat. Greene's view of the value of success is uncritical, and what he creates to justify that view errs on the side of respectability as much as Easy Rider erred on the side of sensationalism...
...Nijinsky has raced exclusively in England and Ireland and he has never lost. For his tenth victory, a race against all the best older horses in England. Nijinsky sauntered by his foes with remarkable ease while the best rider in Europe, Lester Piggot, pulled hard on the reins...
...male principals perform in one consistent style: sheepish. Montand croons his numbers with the air of a man who wishes that he, too, were back in some earlier incarnation. Nicholson's part is at once minuscule and a giant trip backward from Easy Rider...
...express the abysmal views of a gloomy philosopher-director or explore assorted perversions in nude, sweaty detail. Particularly risky is the idea of filming an old-fashioned Hitchcockian murder mystery in all its creaking intricacy. That is precisely what French Director Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise) has done in Rider on the Rain...
...Caster. Next, Jones investigated the notion that a bicycle's stability somehow depends on the position of the front wheel's point of contact with the ground. The rider, after all, usually steers instinctively in the direction of a potential fall, thereby moving the point of contact to one side and increasing the bike's stability. To foil that balancing act, Jones replaced the regular front wheel with a small furniture caster mounted directly in line with the steering-post axis so that turning would not shift the point of contact. Trouble was. the caster quickly became...