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Louis Malle, who has a deserved reputation for taking on dangerous projects (Pretty Baby, Murmur of the Heart), was obviously attracted to the challenge of doing what amounts to an antimovie, static and minimalist. He has functioned, it seems, pretty much in the manner of a good TV technician handling a Sunday-morning inter view show. His work is smooth, objective, unobtrusive. His manner certainly suits a script that was distilled from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between its author-protagonists...
...juror missed out on a job that would have doubled his salary, one had to prepare for and take an entrance exam to graduate school, and two endured the deaths of close relatives. Conjugal visits were permitted only on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Jeffrey Vacek, 23, a computer technician, says of the separation from his steady girlfriend, "It was hell." Because of the boredom and isolation, the jurors, like many other kinds of captives, began to develop an obsession with food. "The main thing was eating," recalls Sherman Frooman, 53, a clothing salesman. "But after all that restaurant food, sometimes...
...must lance Charles on her own, without the assistance of metaphor, and without a line to speak. Worse, she must do it wearing unflattering makeup, eyes and nose reddened from the rough weather and, perhaps, from weeping. An actress who can manage this adequately is a remarkable technician. One who can do it well is a rarity of the sort who comes along once or twice in a decade. What Charles sees when the cloaked woman turns toward him is an alarming, elemental Sarah who blows through the film like a sea storm, a Sarah who defines the role...
DIED. James Fisk, 70, physicist who played a leading role in the development of radar and went on to serve as president and chairman of Bell Telephone Laboratories; in Elizabethtown, N.Y. Joining Bell labs, the research division of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., as a technician in 1939, Fisk was instrumental in the development of microwave magnetrons for high-frequency radar during World War II. As head of Bell labs from 1959 to 1973, he supervised pioneering research on transistors, superconductive metals and industrial lasers...
...Harper Jr., 34, a Houston physician who decided while working in a hospital emergency room that there should be a low-cost alternative for people with simple medical needs. His clinics are open between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. and staffed by four people: a receptionist, an X-ray technician, a nurse and an M.D., who may be an experienced physician or, on weekends, a young doctor completing training at a hospital...