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Throughout the northeastern U.S., June's heavy rains greened the countryside in splendid style, creating luscious lawns, luxuriant sprays of roses -and a mosquito crop that is big, noisy and vicious enough to turn the average picnic into a Schuhplattler exhibition. Says Dr. Thomas Bast, associate medical entomologist of the New York state health department: "This year's overall count is at least 200% higher than any other over the past six years. Some traps that usually catch about 25 mosquitoes a night now catch anywhere from...
...prosperous Venezuela's middle-of-the-road Christian Democratic government. A rapprochement between Havana and Caracas, which was the victim of a particularly vicious Cuban-sponsored terrorist campaign in the early 1960s, would be a major coup for Cuba. It achieved a minor one last week, when Dudley Thompson, a Jamaican Minister of State, turned up in Havana to discuss trade and, possibly, resumption of airline service between Kingston and Havana...
Trintignant uses several devices for cultivating the "inner life" that is the key to his characterizations. To bring out his bad side, he plays poker-"an evil game. If you want to win you have to be vicious." To heighten his perception, he has delved into drugs, fasted and conducted sexual experiments with his wife. To sharpen his powers of concentration, he races his Formula V car. Dominique Sanda, his co-star in The Conformist, describes him as "an eye that listens attentively." Says Trintignant: "I wake up in the morning and think, 'How would my character wash...
VANDALISM can be a form of murder. There are 13th century panels in Siena whose painted demons have been scratched to obliteration by pious fingernails; the Mona Lisa has been stoned. Last week, in one of the most vicious examples of vandalism to date, Michelangelo's Vatican Pieta was almost ritually assaulted by a 33-year-old Hungarian-born Australian geologist who cried: "I am Jesus Christ...
...movie is as shrill and dense as its heroine and, incidentally, is casually vicious toward Puerto Ricans, who are mostly portrayed as primitives who are prey to ghastly superstition and threatening to high-toned women. Director Waris Hussein is, from the evidence of this movie, unclear about the difference between suspense and brutality. For some heavy atmospherics, he has Norah's apartment festooned with African masks. For shock he lingers lovingly over close-ups of newly decapitated heads. Whenever he needs some tension, he brings on Actor Perry King to snarl, suggest acts of elaborate sadism and terrify...