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...Stray Dog, made in 1949 by Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa, is a less expert thriller but a deeper movie than his recent High and Low. Both are cops-and-robbers chase films, starring Toshiro Mifune. But the older work, aglow with zest and freshness, displays abundantly two qualities of Kurosawa's ripening genius: the ability to make moving pictures move, and an aching compassion for his fellow...
...Kurosawa uses plot merely as a device to view postwar Japan-a nation laid waste, exhausted in defeat, sorting out by slow social processes the stray dogs that forage among the ruins. Though the film runs two hours, much longer than necessary, its best scenes are unforgettably good. Cheering throngs at a Tokyo baseball stadium provide background for one tingling chase. In a city overcome by heat, the camera searches a line of chorus girls collapsed on a dressing-room floor, flesh glistening with sweat, each face a breathless distillation of despair. After a murder, a closeup of a splattered...
...resort for frustrated bug planters is a special mike attached to a sharp spike; driven through the wall, it vibrates with the surface on the far side. But, like esoteric radar beams that pick up the vibrations of distant window glass, spike mikes are apt to be defeated by stray noise unless conditions are perfect...
...seven longish stories have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind. They concern simple people-old Negroes, religious cranks, illiterate feudists, solitary operators of no-hope junkyards, and the quietly desperate people who hope to sell hamburgers by luring stray tourists with a caged eagle, a chained raccoon and a stuffed rattlesnake...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 22-An opportunistic Crimson J.V. football squad four Yale fumbles and two stray passes to down their undefeated host to 14 this afternoon. Time after time stalled the highly touted Elis, , which had outscored each of its Ivy League opponents this year least two touchdowns...