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...progressive public opinion greeted it with joy, in spite of the fact that by 1921, 30 Russian provinces were undergoing a Cambodia-like genocide. (In Lenin's lifetime, no fewer innocent civilians perished than under Hitler, and yet today American schoolchildren, who invariably regard Hitler as the greatest villain in history, look upon Lenin as Russia's benefactor.) The Western powers vied with one another to give economic and diplomatic support to the Soviet regime, which could not have survived without this aid. Europe took no notice of the fact that some 6 million people in the Ukraine...
...real villain of Squaw Valley was a stretch of snow on the women's downhill course. Shooting down the steepest part of the run, skiers would suddenly hit a bumpy, hard-packed mound that sent them flying just as they reached a 90° bend, appropriately dubbed "the airplane corner." The high hopes of the American women crashed at that turn: Betsy Snite and two teammates spilled. Pitou did not fall, but she tottered, squandering precious ticks of the clock and losing the gold medal by 1 sec. to Germany's Heidi Biebl...
...ersatz fisherman whenever a tour train went by. Now Bruce is in front of the cameras again in the upcoming spook spoof The Nude Bomb. Don Adams, a.k.a. Maxwell Smart, tries in his klutzy way to disarm a KAOS bomb that disintegrates clothing and leaves people naked. Adams and Villain Vittorio Gassman fall into Universal's Jaws pond at one point, and Bruce tries unsuccessfully to eat them. Fangs...
...most influential New York critic's voice, a closing notice was posted for the distraught cast, who thought they had a hit. But like Fred Astaire, who rallied everybody to save a show in the movie musical The Bandwagon (1953), Harris Yulin, who plays the villain, made an impassioned speech. "I think if we can stay around long enough," he said, "we can get some word of mouth going...
Ironically, almost anyone who runs to see Being There or Electric Horseman suffers from the video/slick malaise that both these films attempt to ridicule: the need to replace people with images. Both films finger TV as the villain behind a plot to steer Americans toward artificial lives, to keep them from the wonder of natural beauty. Unfortunately, each film exaggerates TV's ill-effects to hammer home its message...