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After 500 meters Harvard had edged out to a tenuous four-seat margin. Navy, on the other hand, decided to temporarily disband its racing efforts and began engaging in a little naval warfare with the Dartmouth crew in the adjacent lane...
...surrealism. Both films treat rather bizarre subjects in a comfortably slick fashion, so that nothing becomes very real or threatening. All decadence is decorative, all desperation synthetic. The Day of the Locust looks puffy and overdrawn, sounds shrill because it is made with a combination of self-loathing and tenuous moral superiority. This is a movie turned out by the sort of mentality that West was mocking...
...Cannonball what? Unsponsored, illicit, and carrying no prize money, the Cannonball etc. car race does not exactly compete in the public imagination with the Indy 500 or Le Mans. Yet, among dedicated speed freaks, the nontelevised non-spectacular has become something of a legend in the five tenuous years of its existence...
...June 1972 really gave Exley something to grieve about. He was seized by the desire "to take something of Wilson to carry with me" because Wilson had been everything he was not: dignified, dedicated, the last survivor of the lost, drunken literary generation. What was more, there was a tenuous connection between the two men. Wilson's final years had been spent restoring his ancestral stone house in Talcottville, not far from Exley's native Watertown, N.Y. Exley had never met Wilson, but then he had barely met Gifford. His mission was clear: sober up and pay tribute...
Justice William Douglas' stroke last New Year's Eve ought to have sent shivers through those death-row residents. In the 1972 case the vote against the death penalty was 5-4, with Douglas part of the tenuous majority. The court delayed oral arguments in the current case while Douglas recuperated, presumably because the other eight Justices believed there was a strong chance that they might split 4-4 without him. Last week Douglas reentered the hospital for "a few days" of rest and tests. The case will now apparently be heard whether he returns...