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...reportage is admirable. Kes is a kestrel hawk; the bird is caught and trained by a 15-year-old boy, and the movie is as much about freedom and repression than anything else. The boy is the no-good-nick of his class at school; the standard target of vicious schoolboy bullying, his mother and brother also treat him like a Yorkshire Dennis the Menace. The scenes at school-a football game, a career-placement interview, a dreary assembly-are astoundingly authentic, and the documentary aspect of the film makes it apparent that this landscape is the source material...
...tremendous demand for Black Studies created a feverish, and sometimes vicious, competition for black faculty members. Because Harvard's program had begun looking for instructors late in the spring of 1969 there was some concern that it might not get top-quality personnel...
...With astonishing impunity, the pirates of the skies are able to take over the swift vehicles that represent the most advanced developments of modern technological civilization. Less and less often are the culprits misfits and former mental patients seeking psychic as well as physical escape. Increasingly, they are dedicated, vicious political fanatics, who have discovered that one of the most vulnerable points of the developed world is a jetliner at an altitude...
...chalked up?and delighted in?a long string of personality assassinations, cutting insults and crushing putdowns. They have distorted news stories to back their hunches, ridiculed prominent women with consummate cattiness and indulged their personal likes and dislikes in puffs and snubs. But no Women's Wear vendetta, however vicious, has ever raised a controversy that can compare with Fairchild's and WWD's fervent espousal of the midi...
...hospitals' rationale for the quotas is that otherwise some doctors would flood them with abortion cases, leaving little room for other patients. That reasoning, says Nathanson, is hypocritical; he calls it "a vicious method of virtually shutting off abortions and curtailing those doctors who have the most patients from doing what the patients need and have a legal right...