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Entitled They Call It A Game (Dial; $7.95), Parrish's book indicts the football establishment for its greed, manipulations and possible crooked dealings in building and protecting its monopoly. Writes Parrish:"I thought of something Jim Brown had once said to me after a tough game. There are only a few hunters but everybody wants to eat the meat.' I had agreed, That's basic in nature. The lion makes the kill, hyenas in packs take whatever they can from the lion, and vultures pick the bones.' The same natural or der prevails in pro football...
...retired. Kirk and Johnny glower at each other a great deal, then settle down into the kind of edgy friendship that is good for about 15 minutes of running time. Eventually both men are needled by the bloodthirsty townspeople and driven by thier own sense of honor, competition and greed to shoot it out. Instead of humdrum showdown on main Street at high noon Johnny and Kirk decide to go for their guns in a bullring conveniently located at the edge of town. Tickets will be sold, faster gun takes the proceeds. The spectators in the bullring...
...this time the Old Man has been transmogrified into a wise and mellow padrone, and the story shifts a generation. Daughter Anna inherits her mother s masochism; her sister Margaret gets her father's greed. As for Robert, he drinks, chases women and wonders what the Old Man ever saw in him. The reader can only agree...
...Communist China. Let the world not forget that the responsibility for the loss of China to the Communists must be laid squarely on the shoulders of Chiang and his in-laws. No amount of whitewash could cleanse them of their guilt of misrule, corruption and greed. Shed no tears for their demise...
Frankenheimer's technical virtuosity receives ample display, the buzkashi alone is thunderously exciting and imparts a startling sense of participation. But he has tried to do too much. Besides his obsession with courage, he obviously also wanted to say something about greed, honor and duty, but the themes never mesh. Dal ton Trumbo's screenplay and his fake Arabian Nights dialogue do nothing to help. There is much talk of "the coolness of my shop" and characters greet each other with such fulsome salutations as "Peace on you, O master of the stables." Miss Taylor-Young bolts across...