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...inhabitants are Mexican-Americans who scrape together a living as stoop laborers during the melon-picking season. Yet in the past two or three years, brick houses worth as much as $75,000 have sprung up among the pink and green shanties that line Route 83 between Roma-Los Saenz and Rio Grande City. Outside some of them sit new refrigerators still in their shipping cartons...
Perhaps more than any other aspect of the game, the Tigers controlled the battle of the big men throughout the contest. Princeton center Bob Roma tallied 14 points and hauled down seven rebounds, while Harvard's Steve Irion logged only two points and three rebounds...
...with the work of Federico Fellini, but his film The Clowns reveals an ability to handle a journalistic topic like the world of the circus in a straightforward manner. The quasi-documentary approach to the material checks Fellini's growing affinity for the self-indulgent excesses that emerged in Roma and Satyricon, yet the gaudiness and affected posturing of the clowns enables him to at least satisfy this inclination without damaging the artistry of the film. An ultimately compassionate insight into the bittersweet experiences of life's buffoons, The Clowns provides a fairly painless introduction to Fellini for the moviegoer...
Federico Fellini's Casanova is a fantastic puppet-show. Loosely structured on Casanova's autobiography, the film relates his amorous adventures in an anecdotal style similar to that of Fellini's earlier film, Roma. Episodes succeed each other in a vaguely chronological order, but there is no plot, no continuum of theme, no development of character or emotions. One woman is followed by another woman, and another woman, one court, another court, one spectacle, another spectacle, another spectacle. One fuck, another fuck, another fuck...
...mainly responsible for leaving the hoopsters spiritually filleted was 6-ft. 10-in. center Bob Roma. Roma tossed in nine of thirteen field goals and capped his 23-point performance with a couple of slam dunks...