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...September's attack were not repeated last week. Indeed, whites' feelings of vulnerability were further heightened by the experience of the Viscount sent out to survey the RH-827 crash site. Flying low to reduce the risk of being hit by a missile, the pilot felt a slight jar and thought the plane had struck a bird. After it landed, five bullet holes were found in the fuselage...
...This is Dalen's first feature and it shows--there is the slightest hint of home-movie about this film in the camera placings and the colors. But the pacing is superb and an imaginative use of soundtrack keeps you there. In fact, the home-movie quality--the slight hint of innocence about the film, the complete lack of slickness--actually helps the film. The whole thing looks innocent enough, but what you're seeing is awful...
Although Holpuch turned in another strong performance, Koziara capitalized on a slight size advantage and scored 19 points for the Big Green. Only help from Meyers and Carle prevented Koziara from snatching all the rebounds...
Flom, a small, slight man with thinning gray hair and a forehead wrinkled in a perpetual look of surprise, seems to prefer representing raiders. He has also directed skillful defenses, notably his "Jewish dentist" defense in 1975 for Stern-dent, a manufacturer of dental equipment under attack by Magus Inc., a holding company that is 10% owned by the Kuwait Investment Co. Flom sued Magus for not disclosing that many of Stern-dent's customers were Jewish and might not buy from a company partly owned by an Arab government agency. The argument was such a successful public relations...
...more intimate for you, my friends," Voznesensky explained to an audience that included Mstislav Rostropovich, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and C.P. Snow. As Poet William Jay Smith, a favored translator and friend, read English versions from Nostalgia for the Present, Voznesensky could be glimpsed in the wings, his slight figure rigid with apprehension, as if braced for combat. Following the English readings, Voznesensky moved forward to recite the Russian originals. Among them was a new poem: "Fighting eternal idiocy,/ born to the greatest deeds there are,/ the literature of Russia/ conducts civil...