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...zero-gravity, potassium loss experiment joins projects researching the causes for spacesickness and calcium loss in the bone as primary projects in NASA's attempts to make space more friendly to man. Morre-ede said yesterday...
...drought that is centered in the northern province of Hebei, but has also affected five other neighboring provinces. An estimated 14 million people are living on survival rations. Says a recent visitor: "There are vast areas of parched land where nothing has grown since early last year. Wells are bone dry or terribly low." Contagious diseases are epidemic, and rickets strikes an estimated 11 % of children under 14. The drought shows no sign of ending. Declares an international relief official: "The situation can only deteriorate even further from here...
CUTTER AND BONE...
...angry and has every, right to be. He lost an eye, an arm and a leg in Viet Nam, and there are hints that a family fortune was somehow dissipated before that. He drinks, makes terrible scenes in public, and in private treats his wife Mo (Lisa Eichhorn) shamefully. Bone (Jeff Bridges) is pathologically amiable, a gentle gigolo who would rather be out on his sailboat or, better still, indulging a dream of rescuing his buddy's lady from her slummy, captive misery. In short, Cutter and Bone are the oddest couple this side of, La Cage aux Folles...
When the big bullies are dominating the movie playground, it can be tough for a small, canny film to survive: United Artists has, at least temporarily, pulled Cutter and Bone from release. One can only hope that this spirited original will be given another chance...