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Died. Dr. Stuart Brinkley Jr., 54, physicist and pioneering researcher into the characteristics of explosives; of a heart attack; in South Bristol, Maine. Though he lost both hands in a lab explosion while a student at Yale, Brinkley did not let the tragedy hamper his career: he learned to use artificial hands, experimented without letup. His treatise on blast wave theory, written with Cornell Professor John Kirkwood, is a classic in its field...
...have to be a fan clubber to love Elliott Gould, but it helps when, as in Move, his talent is swaddled in mediocrity. Laboring under Stuart Rosenberg's incomprehensible direction, Gould strives to leaven a sodden lump of a movie. His role is that contemporary stereotype, the creative Manhattanite who thinks himself into a granny knot. However fascinating Gould's mumblings and stumblings may be, they are scarcely enough to sustain 90 minutes of pointless celluloid...
...STUART J. SAVAGE Chicago
...midst of financial crisis, top executives are often forced to walk the plank. Stuart T. Saunders was ousted as boss of Penn Central. Bernard Cornfeld was pushed out of his I.O.S. mutual-fund complex. The latest to go is James J. Ling, who built Ling-Temco-Vought into a conglomerate with sales last year of $3.75 billion...
Perhaps the most blatant pitch in a movie of this sort, is the Strawberry Statement, even though the movie does not star Elliot Gould. It is scantily-written and over-directed in a cinema gullibilite style. Director Stuart Hagmann has taken a heavy hand in his zooms, tracking shots, cuts, and dissolves in a desperate attempt to obscure the transparency of Israel Horovitz's script. Horovitz himself is a very concerned, intelligent man, and even makes a cameo appearance in this movie, but his screenplay has little of the punch of his plays like Rats, or The Indian Wants...