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...Wild One has Marlon Brando ditching Mark Anthony's toga for a pair of greasy blue jeans and a leather jacket. In the process he picks up a flashy motorcycle and some cool bop talk, and accompanied by a grizzly crew sporting well oiled side-burns, Brando roars to a stop in a one-car town. For a moment it looks like a desperadoes-shooting-up-the-village western with over-powered motorcycles replacing the trusty steed. But what might have been little more than a modern horse opera turns into a brutally realistic blend of tension and violence forceful...
When the last cyclist has disappeared from sight, you are likely to feel both jarred and satisfied. Clever photography and careful acting produce a definite atmosphere--you can almost smell gasoline and oil. Of course this may be due to the mob of leather jacket fans you fight through to find a seat. But it's worth...
...Changes contains the results of such widely differing scientific methods, it seems to evade the audience. The specialist will wait for reprinting in trade journals of the few articles in his field. And it will be the rare layman, unusually inspired by the stark mountain peaks on the book-jacket, who will decipher formulae for luminosity of the sun in order to lay bare an astronomer's scientific reasoning. The book would be improved by several additional papers on the earth's climate, how it molds the earth's terrain, and whether storminess is essential for human invigoration. Such essays...
...total devastation provides "opportunity for young men" and gives architects a chance to design better cities. Moreover, by obliterating Mr. Bailey and his embezzlements, it gives Lenore the chance to marry Chuck. So on the whole, perhaps the only really terrifying thing about Tomorrow is a statement on the jacket which says that Author Wylie is "an expert in Civil Defense matters and serves the Government in the capacity of Consultant...
...other department stores, which wanted her to look for new fabrics and ideas. After brushing up on her Spanish, she went to Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala, bought clothes right off the Indians' backs, and came back with plenty of ideas, notably the design for a short, pleated beach jacket known as the "Cholo" coat...