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Died. Frazier Hunt, 82, who helped cast the stereotype of the dashing, trench-coated foreign correspondent; of a stroke; in Abington, Pa. "Spike" Hunt lived and wrote in the same style-first person singular. Beginning with World War I, he embarked on a Cook's tour of hot spots and the men who caused them-Lenin founding his Bolshevik regime, Pancho Villa hiding in Mexico's mountains, Sun Yat-sen ensconced in China, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk embattled in Turkey; during World War II, he renewed an intimate working friendship with Douglas MacArthur and later wrote...
...latest picture, Doctor Dolittle (see CINEMA). She was right, of course: not everyone was at the premiere. But those who were there -plus everyone watching the TV coverage of the event-saw Joan erupting from a Castillo Paris gown that was the dressmaker's equivalent of the Marianas Trench. Far from courting publicity, Joan said, she was just seeking comfort-and "most clothes these days are so rigidly constructed you feel as if you were put together, not dressed...
...result, and because they could not be helilifted out to proper medical treatment. The dead were piled six high and hastily covered with ponchos, arms and legs protruding from the grim mass. So tight was the U.S. perimeter that one soldier had to move bodies to dig himself a trench to sleep in, and another used two fallen buddies to keep himself warm during the bitter cold highlands night...
Dark as the Sundam Trench...
Star and Co-Producer Stanley Baker, who saunters through the film as the master criminal replete with belted trench coat and salt-and-pepper mustache, is a man both obviously enamored of his project and absolutely blind to the faults of the beloved. With tedious attention to detail, Robbery examines every minor maneuver of the criminals, watches a handcuff screw turn 17 times before it is opened, sees every last bag of loot passed from hand to hand into waiting trucks. And after playing it taut upper lip until the last moment, the film goes soft when...