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Then sophomor Rod Foster took over at quarterback, and Harvard...
Senior Bill Kelly, who was sidelined last Fall following a knee operation, has been switched back to quarterback after playing safety as a sophomore, but he'll need time to adjust. And none of the three sophomores, Rod Foster, Eric Crone or Frank Guerra, has all the tools necessary to move in either...
Darker Than Amber is not the best of the genre, but it provides some neat jolts of violent entertainment. The plot is the usual thing: Private Detective Travis McGee* (Rod Taylor) rescues lady-in-distress (Suzy Kendall); their affair is pleasant enough, but she skips out on him and is murdered; McGee seeks revenge on the killers. There is no absurd jigsaw plot to unravel. Stories-and movies-like this rely mostly on atmosphere and characterization, two elements in reasonably plentiful supply in Darker Than Amber. Rod Taylor plays McGee as something a little bit more than the usual...
With Brazilian inventiveness, the victims have devised grimly apt names for the various torture techniques. One of the most widely practiced is called the pau de arara, or parrot's perch. The victim's wrists are tied together and slipped over his knees. After a rod is inserted between his knees and arms, the prisoner is hoisted into the air, where he hangs helplessly, head down. Using electric coils, the torturers shock the victim on the genitals and anus...
...trade unions, and cracked down hard on student dissidents and potential rivals alike. To charges of dictatorship he replies angrily: "It was the foreigners who taught Africans to boo their chiefs and who introduced the concepts of left and right. When I, as the chief, shout or seize my rod to chastise, I do not do so out of malice, but rather for the happiness of everyone...