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...that filmmaking had one thing in common with athletics: you have to practice, keep in shape, keep in touch with the craft. Thus to lose the possibility to shoot for many years is a total disaster for a director. And even if in ten years (to be optimistic) a "thaw" comes in Prague, and new conditions for art appear, it is too late, you can't just pick up where you left off; times have changed and film with it. And for those outside the country it would be too late, too, since in the mean time they may have...
Word spread that the U.S. had abandoned the giant commissary at Newport, setting off a frenzy of looting by some 3,000 Vietnamese. As burglar alarms brayed, looters wheeled off shopping carts filled with sugar, medicines and frozen pork chops that began immediately to thaw and drip hi the blazing sun. Cops in the nearby parking lot watched with amusement, occasionally plucking a few items for themselves from passing shopping carts as a kind of exit toll. Finally a truckload of military police arrived, firing M-16 bursts into the air, and the looting stopped...
...scenarios are exactly the same every night, frozen nightmares that thaw out at the thought of the Harvard icemen in the NCAA tournament...
Cottage Cheese. The course was 16½ miles long but only 8 ft. wide, meandering through stands of aspen and balsam, crossing four frozen lakes and looping back into town. It had been packed down by snowmobiles towing iron bars, but a sudden thaw softened the surface. Drivers, whose control of their dogs is limited to four simple commands -Gee for turn right. Haw for left. Hike for go, and Whoa for stop-found the going tricky, and there were five spills on Suicide Hill. The teams are paced by their drivers, who must take care not to burn them...
Like other dissident Russian authors, Vladimir Maximov, 44, has a well-earned lien on the attention of U.S. readers: Western sympathies are automatically stirred by anyone who tilts a pen at totalitarianism. As his writings during the post-Stalinist thaw grew increasingly cool toward Communist ideology, Soviet authorities turned frigid. Maximov's support of party nonpersons, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, finally brought about his own forced exile to Paris last year...