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...U.S.F.L., which needed to win megabucks just to stay in business, the verdict may spell doom. The outcome was the sudden-death climax of a game that had more fumbles than the sorriest preseason scrimmage. The U.S.F.L.'s suit was watched with immense curiosity by millions of fans who recognize that pro sports are as much about greed as glory and cheered on by local boosters who feel that no city can call itself big league without a pro-football team. More than mere football, the struggle was redolent of the battles among 19th century steel and rail barons...
...fittingly silly anticlimax to one of the sorriest foreign policy messes on record. No matter how the vote next week turns out, no one will emerge happy...
Intended to celebrate the famous victory of General Douglas MacArthur at the title harbor during the Korean War, when he sneaked an army in behind his enemy, cutting them off from home and supplies, Inchon is, as military spectacles go, one of the sorriest in movie history. Behind the sunglasses and corncob, underneath the plastered-down hair, is Laurence Olivier as the general, unable to cut loose either with an approximation of MacArthur's grand manner or the satire of it he seems sometimes to want to try. On the ground in Korea, caught in a withering enfilade...
...sorriest example is at CBS, which became the Bumpkin Network in the 1960s, then dropped a raft of popular shows in the early 1970s in deference to the urban preferences of advertisers. Of late CBS has been hearkening to the heartland again, with Dallas and Dukes of Hazzard and, next Tuesday, a two-hour Return of the Beverly Hillbillies. The film is, alas, the resurrection but not the life. CBS appears to assume that Hillbillies appealed chiefly to yokels, dullards and children, when in fact it was a secret favorite of some college professors and was indebted to the populist...
...TROUBLE IS, though, that when you mix black with most anything you still get black. In his sorriest chapter, Tsongas tries to defend the notion that free enterprise in most cases will function humanely, and that tapping its power is the key to recovery from malaise. His example is Lowell, which has been revitalized by the influx of electronic firms. The "public and private sectors of Lowell are now engaged in ardent embrace," he says. And so it may be, but the tax breaks that encouraged investment in Lowell meant the plant didn't go up in some other town...