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Director Don Siegel has made some good, lean, tough films in his time (Riot in Cell Block 11, Madigan, Coogan's Bluff), and the violence in Two Mules for Sister Sara is typically visceral. Siegel's talents, however, are weighed down by a heavy script and unwieldy performances by the two stars. Eastwood looks grizzled, stares into the sun and sneers, but anything more demanding seems beyond his grasp. Shirley MacLaine, on the other hand, has considerable range and some charm, both of which have been pretty well blunted by the monotonous consistency of her roles. Things...
...would be striking a stronger blow to the existing institutions than they could by any direct confrontation. These institutions need the radical students and the radical professors for their academic talent. The reason these institutions have gotten their way in the past is that they have pulled the stronger bluff: they had convinced the students and professors that they had nowhere else to turn...
...furniture. Dialogue is non-existent or meaningless; Daria walks by chattering wives at the pool without being seen, retreating into a natural rock cavern leading to the house. Inside the house, two groups of businessmen stand on opposite ends of a transparent real-estate development map trying to bluff each other, their desperate quiet energy passing unhindered through the colored plastic. Emotions are unhesitatingly suppressed, language conceals obscure truths. Daria outside, unable to cry over Mark's death, plunges her face into a stream of water, drawing vacarious tears from the man-made waterfall. Antonioni, grooving, is a swell iconographer...
...FLORENCE HARRY Bluff...
...Yale had broken a reasonable rule- such as academic eligibility- it would have deserved such punishment, and would have accepted it. But the two-year probation that the NCAA handed down yesterday is not only unjust, but intolerable, and the Ivies must call the Council's bluff...