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...moving takes that wind around corners and travel through doors with a rare, natural sense, as if he were shooting a fancy documentary. Accordingly, he uses a minimum of reaction shots, and avoids montage nearly altogether until a marvelous sequence that shows Horse's friends assembling for the big rip-off. The actors match the camera style perfectly. They seem too natural to be acting, each word and movement appearing realistically in place...
...notion of making a satirical version of Airport and its three ridiculous sequels seems superfluous, if not impossible. But Airplane! may be this summer's most cheerful lunacy. Its style is basic collegiate raunch (imagine a disciplined Animal House or a frugal 1941). Its plot is an admitted rip-off of an even earlier example of the imperiled-airliner genre, 1957's Zero Hour. What is particular to the new film is its jostling comic inventiveness and pitch-black humor. The pilot and co-pilot (Peter Graves and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) are stricken, in flight, by food poisoning...
Borg has dominated the tournament with his rip-roaring topspin since Gerald Ford was president and James Callaghan was prime minister. His face has reflected a certain serenity as he has wrecked his opponents methodically, in turn. But the image of Borg collapsing to his knees following the last point of every final match stays sharply etched in the mind of every tennis devotee as the Swede's strongest show of emotion...
...cried just like a baby." After Donald fled, Miami HeraId Reporter Earni Young witnessed more cruelty at the same site. Reported Young: "A late-model green car-I think it might have been a Chevrolet Impala-deliberately drove over one of the bodies. I think I saw it rip the man's arm off. The crowd cheered and yelled...
...Portuguese fish stores on Cambridge St. or the Italian bakeries near Vellucci's Insurance Agency. The change will be gradual, for few want to see total change, and many, like Sullivan, are happy with Cambridge the way it is now. But the courts and the state legislature may rip down the paper walls the council erects around the city's borders. Even if they don't, loopholes in council legislation will eventually be found. Despite sophisticated defenses, "we are becoming a city of wealthier people," Duehay says