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...unfolded on an elegant board in the display window of Leavitt and Peirce, a Mass. Ave. tobacco store, without the physical presence of either combatant. Leavitt and Peirce sponsored the event as a publicity stunt and receives a daily move by telephone from Yale freshman Michael J. Wilder and Harvard graduate student Duane Champagne...
...this respect, their situation is not terribly different from the Cambodian children at Khao I Dang?except that their hopes of resettlement are justifiably higher. But in temperament the Vietnamese children seem quite different from the Khmer. Generally they are wilder and more independent, either because of their greater freedom in the camps or because of something characteristic. Argyle 4 used to be a storage depot for Hong Kong's armed forces. Now it looks like a teen-age canteen, the kids loitering under the fluorescent lights like teen-agers in any poor city neighborhood, their self-possession equally dopey...
Directed by Billy Wilder Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
...Billy Wilder, 75, who has been writing mordantly funny movies for more than a half-century and directing them for almost as long, has slowed though not mellowed with age. Gone is the crackling pace of Some Like It Hot and One Two Three; now the actors pause after a punch line for laughs that may never come. The pirouetting narrative (from Francis Veber's script for the French film A Pain in the A-) is occasionally incredible. Wasted in flaccid supporting roles are the comic gifts of Paula Prentiss and the decadent-skeleton face of Klaus Kinski. Some...
...water system so that Columbia's heat-shielding devices escaped unscathed. A handful of tiles were nicked by debris, and half a dozen more on the starboard wing were inexplicably stripped of their surface glazing. Otherwise, the 100-ton orbiter survived magnificently, even weathering the bold maneuvers-much wilder than anything attempted by the first crew-that Engle put his bird through during the fiery descent. As the orbiter's stubby wings and flared fuselage began getting lift from the thin air in the upper atmosphere, he threw the ship into a sharp 80° bank and worked...