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...grounded blimp. Director Sherman is a young-old hand at this (remember Raw Meat?); he keeps the camera steady, the action terse and his cast overacting at a uniform pitch that amounts to a house style. The movie does not stint on intelligently choreographed thrills. Like a sleek, knowledgeable hooker, Vice Squad delivers...
...pacify") territory, not seize it, the determining factor in our success or failure was the level of opposition in the south; Wallace called troop infiltration to the south "the most critical factor in the war." The Vietnam era--the go-go '60s, when the computer embodied all that was sleek and modern about America--had an obsession with numbers, and Robert S. McNamara installed his B-School brand of systems analysis in the Pentagon. There, he and his elite corps tried to guide the war by the cold, hard, objective numbers...
...pleasure of watching good character men like Brian Keith, Charles Burning, Bernie Casey and the estimable Richard Libertini going pocketa-pocketa as Sharky's Machine warms up is not to be lightly dismissed. And neither is Reynolds' good sense of the way the sordid and the sleek coexist in Big City life. The man has a feel for the director's craft that could, some day, permit him to break the genre bonds that finally trip him up here...
Strauss: Waltzes, Polkas, Marches and Overtures (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). Felicitous music by the Strauss family in sleek readings by Karajan and the Berliners...
...names still strike a nostalgic chord in the hearts of automotive enthusiasts: the MG and Triumph sports cars, the four-wheel drive Land Rover and the sleek Jaguar. But these days BL Ltd. (formerly British Leyland), Britain's one remaining large-scale auto producer, is only a pale shadow of its former self. MG production ceased a year ago, and the last Triumph was built in October. And now, the very existence of BL is in doubt...