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...sober, are notoriously violent when drunk. One word for a drunk in Japanese is tora-tiger. The police have been prohibited by the law from taming a tora unless he becomes overtly violent. Even then they could only politely take him into protective custody, put him in a paddy wagon whose walls were padded with foam rubber for his own protection, lock him up overnight, release him with a lecture in the morning. One remedial variation: tape-recording his drunken expostulations, then playing the tape back to his glowering wife when she came to pick up the limp tiger next...
Recently, again in Boulat's company, he spent hardy weeks in Algeria, crossing desert tracks so rough that their station wagon had 29 punctures; they also hippety-hopped over the countryside in a rented plane. The result of their travels is the eight pages of Boulat's color pictures of Algeria in this week's TIME. When Behr had finished filing a story to accompany the pictures of this harshly beautiful land, he had to rush back to Algeria. The rebellious army generals had made it front page news again...
Running Scared. At first glance the odds seemed all in favor of Mo Udall. Both he and Stew are popular personally, and the Udall family is a sort of Arizona institution. The brothers' grandfather arrived in a covered wagon, became patriarch of a clan that spread throughout the state. The brothers' father grew up to become the state's chief justice. As a boy, Mo Udall had his right eye blinded in an accident with a knife but went on to win local fame as a star, 6-ft. 5 in. basketball forward at the University...
...campaign trail last week, Matheson was covering the district in a compact station wagon, and Udall was flying his own Piper Tri-Pacer. But with the whole Udall clan pitching in for Mo, Matheson was beginning to feel the pinch. "I feel like I'm running against a relay team," he said. "No sooner do I get through with one Udall than he hands the baton to a brother...
Truffaut's directorial talent is most expressive in the frequent silent sequences. The camera captures the alternating anxiety and joy of the hero through his wordless activity--whether bounding eagerly up a flight of stairs or tearfully staring through the bars of a paddy-wagon. These effects are heightened by the perceptive photography of Henri Decae and the delightful score of Jean Constantin...