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SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8-10:45 p.m.). Sizzling action for a hot summer's night: Zulu (1964), the story of eight British officers (including Stanley Baker and Michael Caine), 97 men, one minister (Jack Hawkins) and the minister's daughter (Ulla Jacobsson) v. 4,000 assorted Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses were earned in the original battle of Rorke's Drift...
Clogs, in one form or another, have been kicking around for centuries. The Swedes took to them long ago, to such an extent that they are known as "Swedish sneakers" even in Sweden. Only recently, however, has the shoe caught on in America. When Ulla Olsenius, now 30, came to the U.S. six years ago as the exclusive importer of clogs for two Swedish factories, she found business less than slow. "All the buyers were very nice," she remembers, "but they just shook their heads...
Lacking warehouses and trucks, Ulla went down to the Manhattan piers, personally supervised the unloading of the clogs and sold them (from $9.50 to $14 a pair) at her tiny shop, Olof-daughters, in Greenwich Village. She wrote orders for only 5,000 pairs the first year; today, she has contracts with eight Swedish factories and sells some 23,000 pairs of clogs a month...
Stickier questions of taste arise in a gold-filtered Eden, where Adam (Michael Parks) takes shape in the sod, starts poking around Paradise eying Eve (Ulla Bergryd) and her apple while an athletic camera plays now-you-see-it, oh-you-don't with their anatomy. Such defoliated innocence fills an audience with awe, not for the miracle of mankind but for the skill of split-second cutting...
...white northern wastes and go whooshing silently across the slopes, pursued by a gunner in a light plane or spectral Nazi ski troops. Director Anthony Mann (El Cid) makes the rest of the action, and the acting, seem quick-frozen. Too often chased indoors, Douglas confronts his ex-Wife Ulla Jacobsson, who appears eager to forgive his intervening philandering, and her kindly Uncle Michael Redgrave, who lends a touch of headmasterish solemnity, as if to prove that the Allied cause is just...