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Ikiru begins with an aging civil service employee's discovery that he has a fatal case of gastric cancer. The narrative twists through some five months, ending just after his death. The plot and characters are common place and simple. The film is an unpretentious Japanese story of a no more momentous event than the quiet death of an old man who has spent most of his life rubber-stamping documents no one cares about. Yet Ikiru is a powerful film, well worth the cost of a ticket and the time away from the books...
...Richard retired last year, the Canadiens have lacked the old luster that the great scorer-playmaker added to his team. Without him as a catalyst, such stars as Goalie Jacques Plante and Sharpshooter Jean Beliveau have seldom played up to their best. By season's end, complacency proved fatal. In contrast, the Black Hawks came into the play-offs in top form. Forward Ab McDonald's return from the injured list restored their stealthy "scooter line"-one of the lightest in the league. Brisk playmaking, sharp checking and the defense work of Goalie Glenn Hall (TIME...
...counted on the hoof or his quality measured in whether he carried a sword or a slingshot -but its quality that is baffling to the modern mind. Homeric life was not merely lived but ceremoniously acted out within a complex web of obligations linking gods and men in fatal and final patterns. There is a strong sense of reality in the Homeric world; the poet had a peasant's narrow eye for each man's just portion and place at table. This apparently simple world was ruled by a supernatural order; divine justice, immediate and dramatic, awaited "those...
Back from London and her near fatal battle with double pneumonia, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 29, headed west for "a few months in the sun." Her left leg-much punctured from intravenous feedings, blood transfusions and antibiotic injections-was swathed in bandages, her tracheotomy wound covered by a high collar. Stoicized Liz: "I'll have my necklaces redesigned a little higher to cover up the scar-sort of diamond and pearl Band-Aids...
Apparently there had been a minor wave of food thefts during the past several weeks, and the policemen were alerted to watch the Divinity School carefully. The fatal bullet was preceded by warning shots--one to five, according to various accounts...