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...documentary sports movies ever made, but professional sports--especially football--are not particularly intriguing subjects for existential speculation. The movie is more successful before it gets pretentious; in the early scenes it out-good-ole-boys the best good-ole-boy movies, with a refreshing Texas lunacy to wipe away memories of The Deer Hunter's plodding steelworkers. But it's all that physical agony that makes the film so dificult to watch for sensitive viewers; as the movie's particulars fade away, all you may remember it as is one long wince...
Heavy demand for coal would wipe out the present glut of the fuel and help lift production from its current level of only about 650 million tons last year to the 1.2 billion-ton 1985 goal that Carter set for the industry in his first energy address two years ago. In the semiarid reaches of the intermountain West, where treasure troves of coal lie almost on the surface just waiting to be scraped up and hauled away, whole new towns would have to be built to house the workers employed at mines and synfuel plants. Residents of the region regard...
...Also announced late last week: a new $1.2 billion arms sale to the Saudis.) The additional Saudi oil would wipe out much of the shortage of crude in world markets, permit U.S. refineries to run faster (they in fact worked at 90% of capacity in early July, the best rate this year) and prevent the long gasoline lines of late June from reappearing this year. But the Saudi action emphasizes rather than relieves the U.S. dependence on foreign oil, and Carter himself fears that it might lessen the sense of crisis that could put the nation in a mood...
Except for prostitution, which continues to flourish in spite of official efforts to wipe it out, the Soviets have no stomach for "deviant" behavior. Pornography is rare. Oral sex is usually performed only with prostitutes (out of male fears of venereal disease). Popular scorn of homosexuality is so intense that it is "simply passed over in silence...
Throughout the trial White sat frozen, staring blankly ahead. Occasionally he shed tears, but he made no attempt to wipe them away. It was a different picture from the outgoing politician who had firmly told reporters on the campaign trail that "crime is No. 1 with me"-and who staunchly supported the death penalty for crimes like...