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Rafelson and Scenarist Brackman understand their two played-out heroes without ever condescending to them, although both writer and director are often guilty of using the same kind of tin-ear dialogue and trite image that David himself might employ in one of his tortuous monologues. One of Rafelson's most certain talents is a nearly preternatural instinct for working with actors, and Nicholson and Dern give consummate performances. In such diverse parts as the bemused attorney in Easy Rider, the laborer and fugitive musician in Five Easy Pieces, the tomcat of Carnal Knowledge, Nicholson has already displayed remarkable...
This year, the story goes, Germany was ripe for recognition (Thomas Mann, in 1929, was the last German citizen to win). The other colorable candidate was Gunter Grass, author of the savage satire, The Tin Drum. Böll's triumph may well be due to a line in Alfred Nobel's will that recommends that the award go to writers of "idealistic tendency." Deep compassion for the ordinary man abounds in Böll's books...
...small boy before the first World War in England, one of W.H. Auden's great treats was a visit to the local gasworks with his nurse. Later, such things as tin mines and bridge engineering and mathematics turned him on. In fact, until Auden was halfway through Oxford, science remained his central interest...
...range missiles and fast little Sprint missiles, which have a range of 25 miles and can climb to 50,000 ft. in two heartbeats. There is a "farm" of 30 Spartans just to the west of the MSR. Scattered round are smaller farms containing 68 Sprints. "They are just tin cans in the ground," explained an official, "and they pop up 25 miles on release...
...refugees who passed through ARVN lines last week, they had come out of hiding in the city, where virtually all buildings have been destroyed, during the night. By day, when the hot, fierce, dry-season wind blows, about all that can be heard is the sound of rattling tin...