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PAULINE KAEL called it "the cattleprod," the theory being that today's audiences are so numb from perennial TV that a movie in a theater needs a long blunt instrument wired with several hundred volts and applied to an armpit, perhaps, or some appropriate erogenous zone, in order to elicit...
BUT THERE HAS to be an exception, else there'd be no one to tell the story of New Haven, no longer new or a haven. His name is Sam Poynter, a writer of departmental reports, but a writer nonetheless, to whose eyes "emotions and surprises are wired." Which is...
Whether or not original theater is actively, albeit covertly, discouraged at Harvard, it undoubtedly has not been encouraged in the recent past. Boundless enthusiasm, confidence and energy, combined with craftiness, financial sense and the ability to enlist help from all sides, tied up with pullable strings, have been the prerequisites...
With a man as unbridled as Ruth and a legacy as clouded as the sensationalistic scribes of the day could make it, documentation becomes as important as imaginative writing. Creamer has compiled every scrap of information available, from the early Baltimore days to the Babe Ruth Days held for him...
> In Belfast, the British campaign to cripple the I.R.A. intensified. At least 16 suspected Proves were arrested in the bloody Ardoyne area. Police also raided a house in the Roman Catholic Lower Falls Road area and uncovered what they claimed was a central I.R.A. "factory" for explosives: fire bombs wired...