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...come. The N.B.A. playoffs can conceivably add up to a total of 31 games (including semifinals and finals in East and West, plus a championship series). But though the players may be bored, their ribs aching, their elbows skinned and their noses bloody, they are not likely to squawk too loudly. Their combined payoff from the playoffs will total...
...Rocco he has reverently revived the techniques he and such directors as Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti could not bring himself to edit, there is also some of the power of the postwar masterpieces...
...Hamburg for minor surgery last month, Sheik Abdullah Al-Jabir As-Sabah, 65, Justice and Education Minister of oil-rich Kuwait, received tender loving care from a 19-year-old secretary, casually married her, quickly got a telephone squawk from one of his three other wives. But by last week, the contrite ("It was beyond my control") sheik was back at his palace near Beirut, had shucked his German bride of ten days and placated his complaining spouse with gifts among them a $10,000 diamond ring. Neither action came hard. The divorce was his 27th, and the baubles were...
...fleeing westward. One woman explained that she had fled "because of the kids." Her little boy had just started school, and "he was turning into a real little Communist. When Easter came, I brought him to West Berlin, not telling him why. Sure enough, first thing he did was squawk that we had gone over to the Nazis and that we had left Grotewohl and Pieck just when they needed...
...falls in love with an American efficiency expert (Constance Cummings) and puts her on the payroll. "Join the 20th century!" she bellows belligerently at Morley and his stunned subordinates, and proceeds to raise corporate Ned in the name of progress. She redecorates the offices, installs time clocks, adding machines, squawk boxes. Soon she is threatening to fire the tweed weavers. "Make cloth for millions-synthetic fiber...