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...grown all summer as gas, cigarette and food prices continued to climb. Residents of the capital began riding the ferry across Havana Bay four or five times a day, hoping it would be hijacked to Key West. Other Cubans began to commandeer motorboats and tugboats, but the authorities gave chase and opened fire. On July 13 at least 32 people died on the tugboat Trece de Marzo after it was rammed and sunk by pursuing Cuban ships. Aug. 5 saw the largest antigovernment demonstrations since Castro came to power...
...stand-out in a solid cast. Born a century too late for the stellar vaudeville career he deserves, Stone employs his expressive face and spectacular physical comedy skills as the libidinous real estate agent of "Nothing On." He makes two fantastic falls down staircases that would have taken Chevy Chase a wagonload of painkillers to endure...
There are all sorts of groovy things that go on. The rising senior men chase all the junior high boys with wooden paddles to give them their licks before their "summer of maturity" begins. The girls capture the "freshman bitches " coming out of school and would grab them to become a part of the "in" crowd...
Avery is worth the attention. His best cartoons inhabit a dog-eat-cat, male- chase-female, everyone-humiliate-everyone-else world -- a place at constant war over food crises and turf disputes. It is also a world wholly aware of itself as an artistic fabrication. A joke will apologize for itself by sprouting an ear of corn (Get it? Corny!). A character will pluck a vagrant "hair" from the film-projector lamp, or abruptly go monochrome because he passed a reading technicolor ends here. "Ain't we in the wrong picture?" asks Red Riding Hood of the wolf in Swing...
King was apprehended only after a car chase,and "I can't tell you he was a model citizen,"Budd said...