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...destination. But on the way the picture rattles along at an exciting express clip. The movie plays fresh variations on a familiar theme in a lean scenario, pungent performances and inventive direction: a gangster car pacing the train is menacingly mirrored in compartment windows as backdrop to the slam-bang action; the cramped train settings are put to striking dramatic effect through expert camera work and cutting. Refreshingly, there are convincing sound effects and no hammering musical score...
...Holmenkollen ski-jumping hill this week, some 150,000 Norwegians, shouting Heia! after each soaring leap, seemed to think that this was the best of all winter Olympic games. Native-born Arnfinn Bergmann won the big jump; Norwegian Speed Skater Hjalmar Andersen became a national hero by his grand-slam performance in winning the 5,000-, 1,500-, and 10,000-meter races on consecutive days; and Norway, according to unofficial point scores, won the games, 125½ to the second-place U.S.'s 89½. Yet the Norwegians still had plenty of cheers to spare...
Last year the Salzburg Seminar relieved most of the clothing collected, but P.B.H. also sent shipments to universities in Slam and Burma...
...five Scottish teams scored such a shutout, but they did manage to whip the Americans in the first test match, 109-54. In the second match, the U.S. did better, only lost 94-83. The Scotsmen played a camay, conservative game, in sharp contrast to the generally slam-bang U.S. style. The Scots used blockade tactics in front of the scoring circle until the skip, comparable to cleanup batter in baseball, could send his final stone down to nudge his teammates' into the bull...
...lively Italian art world likes nothing better than a slug-and-slam free-for-all. Last week Italian artists were having the time of their lives. The occasion: the big government-run Rome Quadriennale, after the Venice Biennale Italy's most important art show...