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...Uganda or the Belgian Congo? In South Africa, the Negro-hating Boers use the Mau Mau's terror to win support for even more brutal suppression of the nonwhites. Kenya, the Land of the Shining Mountain, has become a smoldering ember in Africa. And the surrounding brush vast, white-run, black-populated, miles of it, is tinder...
...Into the Brush. The 111 riders thus risking their necks were the cream of the American Motorcycle Association's 2,000 clubs and 100,000 members. From all over the U.S. they came-lean, leather-skinned young men, none of them professional riders, most of them temporary escapees from workaday jobs as mechanics, farmers or motorcycle dealers...
...favorite, wispy Bobby Hill of Columbus, Ohio, winner of five top races last year, went out on Lap 10 with a dead magneto. Five laps later the defending champion, 23-year-old Dick Klamfoth of Groveport, Ohio, plowed into another cycle. He was hurtled into the trackside brush and walked away with nothing worse than bruises, but his English-made Norton was wrecked...
Miss Booth's performance is, of course, the highlight of the film. A strangely static character, Lola passively reacts to the hell around her but never really comprehends it. With wistful comfort from a distant but remembered past, she plods through the present listlessly, leaving her hair-brush on the breakfast table and her girdle in the bureau. A less gifted actress would make Lola only repulsive, infuriating for her aimless sloppiness, her complete lack of intellect and sensitivity. Miss Booth, however, draws an infinitely pathetic portrait of a lonely and well-meaning, but painfully limited woman unable to cope...
...aggressive shock of long black hair, neatly combed. I shook my head and looked around the office. The walls were lined with photographs of his numerous before-after triumphs. A red bottle, a green bottle and a pale yellow bottle were ranged artistically along his desk, and a brush in a plastic stand took the place of a pen on his blotter...