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...indication of the growing friendship between the Soviet Union and Egypt-as well as the cost of that friendship-is the fact that trade between the two nations jumped 26.5% in 1969 and will increase again this year. In addition to cotton, yarn and rice, Egypt now sells the Russians a wide variety of other products. Moscow stores this year, for example, are stocking Egyptian rum and brandy as well as large, expensive Egyptian furniture that barely fits into many Moscow apartments...
...years rumor has had it that all Universal Pictures films are made by a giant computer. If so. The Forbin Project is the machine's apologia pro vita sua, a razzle-dazzle science fiction yarn about a computer takeover. It was made -at least according to the screen credits -by humans, but the film's rigorous plotting, its smooth suspense and meticulously calculated style seem strictly and triumphantly machine-made...
...easy as whittling. Cable Hogue shows a new side of Peckinpah. It is not so melancholy as Ride the High Country or so raw and violent as The Wild Bunch. It is quiet, lyrical, bawdy, funny and sad in almost equal portions, exactly as a good back-room yarn should...
...further hots up his tale with pirates, witches and a plantation owner's daughter-an 18th century Lolita, the young bitch-heroine to end all bitch-heroines. But like painted scenery, Maclnnes' skillfully assumed style devitalizes what it copies. It inhibits Westward to Laughter as Rattling Good Yarn while blunting it as Savage Satire...
...searcher and an optimist. His problem: where to roost? The Jewish life of his Chicago boyhood? Wonderful! A spell as a thief? Why not? The university? That too. The book ricochets about the Chicago of Bellow's own young manhood; but if the author has a wild yarn to tell about a madman in a lifeboat, he ships Augie out on a tanker; if Mexico appeals to author or hero, off they both...