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People who doubt that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer have argued that there could be no real proof until comparison was made between groups of smokers and nonsmokers who are identical in all other major respects. Some have insisted that the villain in the lung-cancer picture is industrial air pollution. This week, under Los Angeles' smoggy pall, researchers reported on a study designed to refute both arguments...
...nibbled at a bowlful of carrots and celery and never took a drink. More alert than some of the actors he has to work with, he can master a routine after only two or three run-throughs. For TV Fury has had to kick a club out of a villain's hand while running near full gallop. And once when his pals were playing ball and needed a centerfield replacement, Fury stepped out on cue, trapped a ball on the bounce, between his teeth. Cracked one of the extras: "Those horses are all alike: good field...
Color is the villain, but here its evil agent is not oppression by the whites (they are only gently oppressive, and sometimes bumblingly kind), but the hard, protective shell of ignorance secreted by the blacks. The novel's story is of a family festering in such a shell, built of fear and blind religiosity. Don't ask questions, Cille's mother repeats, walling in her children. Don't think; thank...
...great tragicomedies boils up again from the Dublin slums. Siobhan McKenna, as Juno, has in her voice all the ache and sorrow of Cathleen Ni Houlihan; Seamus Kavanagh makes his Captain a lovable buffoon for most of three acts and - at the right moment - turns him into a villain; Cyril Cusack whines and wheedles his way magnificently into the role of Joxer Daly...
...music that gives him and his wife most pleasure is the whir of the adding machines"--which last year rang up gross sales of $3 million, on which the Maccaferris netted a "melodious" two hundred thousand after taxes. Throughout the book taxes play the role of a mild villain...