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...about time that the rip-off of artists got some publicity and that something was done to remedy the present situation. Too long has the artist been considered the poor and rather eccentric relation, even within the educational system. Too often has the parasite become rich from the artist's sweat and tears...
...Hiroo Onoda, 52, Japan's last-known World War II straggler, who had finally been persuaded to surrender on the remote Philippine island of Lubang. For many Japanese, Onoda's ordeal seemed to strike a more responsive emotional chord than that of Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi, another wartime Rip van Winkle, who returned from his hideout on Guam two years ago (TIME, Feb. 7, 1972). Yokoi had remained in hiding because he was afraid, and did not know that the war was over...
...ironpushin' regulars hit the pile with predictable regularity ... To them, working out is a contest of who is the strongest, who is the baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they rip off [lift after lift] until their muscles are swollen with blood and then, and only then, they strip to the waist. As they remove their shirts, a discerning eye weighs the audience reaction. If the crowd doesn't respond, they do. It seems the pump-up tripper...
...short, there is a little something for everybody in Crazy Joe - except those who insist on at least routine cinematic competence even in gangster movies. With Peter Boyle in the title role, and Rip Torn, Eli Wallach, Charlie Cioffi and Luther Adler as supporting hoods, there is a fair amount of acting ability on hand, but each man seems to be working in a minimovie all his own. Director Lizzani is unable to find in Carlino's ripped-off script a solid tempo from which the actors might take a common beat. As a result, Crazy Joe never lives...
...absolute shortage" of oil in past months. He thinks that the cause of the problem was that the government allowed the oil companies to dominate our energy policy, a situation which he hopes will change drastically. He says there was not any "effort to put together a world-wide rip-off by the oil companies--they aren't that sophisticated...