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...evidence of this movie, the 1978 Grand Prize winner at Cannes, it seems safe to say that Italian Director Ermanno Olmi is no fan of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900. Like 1900, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a lengthy (three hours), luxuriously photographed film about Italian peasants, but after that all similarities end. 1900 was a didactic epic that attempted to merge the florid drama of opera with the tenets of Marxism; Clogs is pointedly a tranquil, nonpolemical attempt to describe the peasants' daily existence in the objective manner of documentary cinema. Given their respective goals, Olmi...
...Yale Series of Younger Poets has produced such distinguished alumni as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich and Muriel Rukeyser. This year's winner, selected from a field of 475, is Leslie Ullman, 31, a college teacher now living in Kansas City, and she has already cleared the first two hurdles facing all beginning poets: having something to say and saying it well. Ullman stakes a claim on the borderline between the real and the imagined. Her people, mostly women waiting for something or someone, are mercurial consciousnesses flowing smoothly from past to future or recording temperatures that have...
...beaten by Arts and Letters. Majestic Prince never raced again. But last Saturday his son Coastal came to the Belmont and avenged his father's defeat, dashing Spectacular Bid's Triple Crown dreams with a galvanic, come-from-behind run that took him to the wire a winner by 3¼ lengths...
...Winner's Circle, Conn
...University of Kentucky, ticks off the contributions of his profession to the sport, from the use of antibiotics to treat barn cough to new surgery techniques to remove bone chips. Then he admits, "I don't think they have anything to do with it. A Triple Crown winner is a running machine with courage. Nobody knows where that comes from...