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...Grant breaks free, then does some romantic interluding with a seductive Eva-Marie Saint. But she turns out to be Mason's agent (although ultimately a double agent) and the persecution continues. Scary enough. But Hitchcock invests even more genius in a few intricately-constructed and flawlessly-carried-out chase scene: the escape from the rare antique auction, the low-flying crop-duster in the cornfield bit, and the film's finale, a rush from death across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kubrick Gets His Kicks; Hawks Hyperventilates | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

Those costs will be enormous, particularly in the West, where utilities rely heavily on oil-and gas-fired plants. Nationwide, Chase Econometrics calculates that by 1985 the total cost of converting old oil-or gas-burning plants might reach $60 billion. That figure does not include the cost of constructing new coal-fired plants, since many of those factories would have to be built anyway, whatever fuel was used to power them-but the cost will nonetheless be huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Coal's Clouded Post-Strike Future | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

SEEKING DIVORCE. Jacqueline Carlin, 28, television guest actress (Kojak) and pitchwoman (Palmolive); from Cornelius ("Chevy") Chase, 34, comedy writer and actor who rose to fame with his pratfalls on NBC's Saturday Night Live; after 16 months of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 17, 1978 | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Dartmouth (1-10) 100 001 0 2 5 3 HARVARD (11-1) 000 400 x 4 4 0 Pitching IP H R ER SO BB Brown (W, 6-0) 7 5 2 1 9 1 Carson(L) 3-2/3 2 4 0 3 5 Chase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXSCORE | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...impossibility of the odds finds expression in paradox: "we age in the youngest canyon; we fumble through/the same impassable passage." Hope finds outlet in dreams, signs and visions: a rainstorm on the ocean; a mirage of fellow travelers. Rock formations and vegetation come to stand for futility: "the children chase [Tumbleweed]/as though they were chasing/hoops or balls/the rootless chasing the rootless...

Author: By Harte Weiner, | Title: Death and Rebirth | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

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