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Which is why comparisons to The Sting or to the "camaraderie" movies about male companionship are ill-drawn. Altman may be trying to recover from the disaster of Thieves Like Us (his advertising got pulled) by making a sure-fire picture that will fund his "own" movie in Nashville, but with a few exceptions California Split is not a cheap turn-on picture. It's just a muted, funny movie that is very close to American life, and to call it empty would be like calling life empty--a moot point...
...best composer to have his works played to death in the '70s: Scott Joplin (The Sting, The Red Back Book, piano rolls, E. Power Biggs' pedal-harpsichord arrangements, ad infinitum...
...Krimtekhnika-74" completed its 14-day run in Moscow this week as a big success-at least among the Soviet police. No wonder. It is a display from 66 firms in a dozen countries of such police-state paraphernalia as listening devices disguised as pens, battery-powered nightsticks that sting like cattle prods and special truncheons that leave no marks. Because of the adverse publicity raised by Senator Henry M. Jackson about the desirability of U.S. sales of such repressive equipment to the Kremlin, only two American firms showed up at the fair; their wares ranged from a $35 fingerprint...
Nostalgia students can hardly be astonished. The '20s, '30s and '40s have all passed in review. Gatsby, The Sting and The Way We Were indicate that they are passing still. The '50s, ever in character, have been waiting silently for their turn. No one can begrudge the decade its place in the fun; yet anyone over the age of 25 may object to the prefix Fabulous...
...Among Muggeridge's notable colleagues of that tune were Graham Greene and the double agent Kim Philby. Spying depressed Muggeridge so that he even flirted with suicide one night in Mozambique by swimming out to sea. Unlike Evelyn Waugh, whose attempt to drown himself was foiled by a sting from a jellyfish, Muggeridge simply turned back to shore "without thinking or deciding." Through it all, he affects to find his younger self as vain and misguided as the rest of mankind...