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Hampered by a simulated French accent, Bloom lacks gravity in certain scenes, but her ravishing beauty is authority enough. With a voice that can raise a welt with a whisper, Atkins is monarch of all she surveys. The rest of the excellent cast helps make the Broadhurst Theater a plot of royal ground...
...constant target of blitzing linebackers and stacked nine-man defenses. "Ed is a marked man." says Musick. "He gets more late hits and piling-ons than anyone I've ever seen." It may be true that some Ivy League defensemen couldn't raise a welt on a waterboy, but the pro scouts are flocking to Cornell games, and Marinaro is virtually certain to be a first-round draft pick. Marinaro says he "won't be disappointed if I don't win the Heisman. I feel I'm the best...
...give me a shot to tranquilize me. The faucet on the toilet was dismantled to prevent me from sucking up any water from the toilet during the hunger strike. These were the same guards who had recently passed out copies of the East paper "Young World" (Junge Welt) which told the story of Angela Davis, American communist, who drank only fruit juice during her hunger strike because prison officials wouldn't give in to her demands. I could see these guys weren't going to be serving me any Minute Maid Orange Juice...
Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, 80, who is well remembered for his short-lived stint as Chief of State in Germany after Adolf Hitler's death, is not happy about his place in history. Interviewed in the German magazine Die Welt, the semi-deaf "Big Lion" of the Nazi war fleet talked about what he considers his real accomplishments: "I was able to prevent 1,850,000 German soldiers from falling into Russian hands. Historians even claim 3,000,000 were saved. My position would be different were I not considered the political successor of Hitler...
...tente in Europe. Certainly the manuscript, which contains a detailed analysis of Soviet political and military goals for the next two decades and calls for a parallel buildup of Western military strength, can only be welcomed by foes of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. That would include Die Welt Owner Axel Springer, whose criticism of the Brandt government borders on frenzy. Gehlen's memoirs could also be an overdramatized effort at self-justification...