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Even more unfortunate than the new bike rip-offs is the old anarchy. Any visitor to Europe has wondered at the rapid transit of pedaling citizens in Dublin and London, Paris and Berlin. In America, pandemonium reigns supreme. Some riders go with traffic; others against it. Some obey vehicular signs; others move with the pedestrian tide. The result: an estimated 456,000 emergency-room visitors in 1974. And more are expected this year...
...Embargo Rip-Offs...
Leaving Chatanooga, the weather tilted. We left the dream-like Florida mid-eighties and met head-on the ominous fringe of a Northern blizzard. Further ahead in Tennessee lay a vicious front of unending rain and tornadoes looking for barns to rip apart. Nick didn't talk much by then. He took over the driver's seat in a trance, driving steadfastly, relentlessly drawn toward the source of his $200 phone bills...
What we're talking about, of course, are the NCAA finals this weekend in San Diego, Calif., which will, of course, rip delirious Kentuckians into warring camps when both the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville walk over their semifinal opponents (Syracuse and UCLA, respectively) Saturday night, barefooted...
...Four Musketeers. The first part of this was fun, but this extension is a serious rip-off. Richard Lester knows his craft as a director; certainly this is a beautiful movie visually and it is fast. But too fast and skimpy. They filmed the whole of this to be released as one picture, but somebody decided they could milk us for two. Sneak in the back and have a nice time, but the self-respecting ought not give those bastards the satisfaction of paying $2.50 for excess footage...