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...nervously shifting eyes, sweaty foreheads and shaky hands. Altman's premise is that getting hooked on gambling is the kind of emotional brinkmanship that is suicide by inches. This knowledge runs through California Split like a cold current and is the source of the movie's stubborn power...
...used soiled instruments. A team of disease detectives headed by Dr. Carl J. Johnson investigated, fearing that ear piercing - like tattooing and mainlining heroin - might spread hepatitis. The jeweler said that he soaked his needles in 70% alcohol, but Johnson pointed out that this treatment does not kill the stubborn hepatitis virus. The team tracked down 48 young women who had had hitherto unexplained viral hepatitis and found that seven had recently had their ears pierced. Not only jewelers but physicians who use only alcohol or benzal-konium solution for "cold sterilization" may be guilty of spreading the disease. Johnson...
...counting, no one seems to have noticed the stubborn absence of humor or the manic mugging by the star, Louis de Funès, whose exertions make Jerry Lewis look, by comparison, like Alfred Lunt. De Funès likes to pop his eyes out, fast and wide, like two billiard balls bouncing off the side cushion. He is ever choleric, his veins on the point of rupture, like a man who has been mud-splattered by the bus he just missed...
...really a very comfortable middle-class existence," Nicholson says, adding that though he was stubborn and scrappy, his mother gave him room to romp. "You're on your own," she told him. "All I expect is that if you get into trouble, you'll tell me about it." Nicholson early inaugurated his lifetime habit of giving people nicknames. His sister Lorraine was "Rain," her husband George "Shorty." Nicholson referred to his father, however, as "Jack." He called his mother "Mud." He was reticent about his home life. Recalls George Anderson, a high school pal, now a salesman...
...falling back onto emotionalism and dwelling on the fact of suffering, Sontag fails in her political responsibility to make the situation clearer through a careful and concrete analysis. She injects into an already highly charged situation even more intense feelings, feelings which only harden the Israelis in their stubborn refusal to recognize the legitimate rights of the Palestinians, and thereby grant to them the very recognition as a people the Israelis demand from the already existing Arab states...