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...Rursdael's heroes were not the men and women of Holland, but the country itself; the rolling and woody terrain, the castles, cities fields rivers and the sea. He is famous for glorifying trees and windmills making these subjects the principle figures of his works. In A Blasted Elm with a View of Egmond aan Zee the city serves as a backdrop to the twisted and torn elm in the foreground. Ruisdael's most famous painting. The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, may be as close to portraiture as Rusidael comes--with a three quarter profile of a windmill...
...Army's new M-l Abrams tank illustrates both the problems and the potential of overcoming Soviet numbers with advanced technology. At its best, the 60-ton monster is a marvel, roughriding over terrain at 35 m.p.h. while firing its 120-mm cannon with remarkable accuracy. Its revolutionary armor provides protection several hundred times as great as that of the M60, which the new tank replaces. Yet the M-l has been plagued with problems during development, and costs have now reached $2.43 million apiece (compared with $1.2 million for the M-60). The main problem was that...
...spirit of Leonard Skutnik, who dived into the Potomac last month to rescue a drowning plane crash victim (see box), and stirring speeches to Congress by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Only when he touched on foreign policy did he shift about nervously, as if on unsure terrain...
Director Richardson is a long way from his old terrain of kitchen sinks (A Taste of Honey) and drawing rooms (Tom Jones). He allows a few implausibilities and submits the viewer to one winsome muchacho too many. But this is still a successful invasion of Peckinpah County, where bogus high life and a quick ugly death too often intersect. The film's mercuric feeling is heightened by Ric Waite's supple zooms, pans and tracking shots, and by the whining chords of Ry Cooder's music. As for Nicholson, he shows again that he can embody...
...Charlotte Verney, 38, and Mechanic Jean Gamier suffered a broken axle on their Peugeot 504 and then vanished in the vast expanse of the Sahara. A search party, led by Algerian and French military planes and helicopters, crisscrossed the desert sky while trucks and Land Rovers traversed the rugged terrain. Finally, last week, on the sixth day of the trio's disappearance, they were spotted, stranded between two small Algerian desert towns. Said Thatcher after his rescue: "All I need is a beer and sandwich, a bath and a shave.'' -By E. Gray don Carter