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...victory over Jill Robertson, Steiner presented the Radcliffe team with a mammoth bouquet of roses, a la Riggs. Equally chivalrous and chauvinistic, Steiner gave away three games to Robertson, and at one point returned her way-out-of-bounds shot at set-point with a wink...
This is the kind of material that a good director can give us in the wink of a panning camera's eye. Fred Zinnemann, happily shifting down from the upper-middlebrow range of A Man for All Seasons and Behold a Pale Horse, is a good director. A onetime film editor, he is a master of the short cuts that are the shortcut to supplying lots of information effortlessly. He is also a master of camera placement, a man who can give us the essence of a scene in one elegant, yet self-effacing setup. As a result, what...
...penalize innocent athletes and contribute little to the image of sport. When the N.C.A.A. refuses to clear its athletes for an A.A.U. meet one week, the A.A.U. gets revenge the next by neglecting to submit for certification a world record set by an N.C.A.A. runner. Though the authorities generally wink at under-the-table gratuities of various kinds, the N.C.A.A. once suspended Oregon State's Gary Freeman from the varsity basketball team for violating a rule about offseason play. Freeman's heinous crime: on a trip home to Boise, Idaho, he returned to his high school to play...
Before we left Hanoi, we were treated to a sumptuous banquet in a Soviet compound (compliments of the North Vietnamese government) that included classical French delicacies, Russian champagne and Vietnamese rice and orange wines. As the lights, which flickered on and off throughout the meal, continued to wink, we puffed on "Dien Bien Phu" cigarettes...
...flash on high-rise panel backdrops and form skyscraper spectaculars. At their shadowy base laps the treacherous asphalt tide of the urban jungle. This translates into dance numbers with the slashing tempi of switchblades, though none are shown or used. Hookers, casual muggings and cops as cynical as the wink of an eye breeze across the stage, less in menace than in roguish mockery. Never mind if any of this is strictly true; it matches the urban mythos of the moment, and provides the musical comedy brass to go with the plot's violins...