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...this refreshing manual, Schickel manages to avoid every classic bromide. The divorcee is not seen as muggee or neglected saint, older women are consistently praised, and the references to sex are free of cant and prurience: "There are still people in this world who like to think things over, and they often turn out to be very good people indeed ... If she doesn't want to, she doesn't want to. So be a good sport about it, for God's sake...
...military sectors. He would like to reimpose tight currency restrictions to curtail the flight of money abroad. And, to reignite a sense of purpose in young people, he would ask for legislation to require that all university students combine a half day of study with a half day of manual or social service work. Says Peres of his grand scheme: "We are going to revolutionize the whole administration of the country...
Along with enough plot convolutions, murders and cliffhangers to mesmerize aficionados, Deighton slings spy jargon with knowledgeable élan. He catalogues the latest Swedish submachine gun and the Führersonderzug-Hitler's private train-with field-manual precision. But he has more on his mind than the blueprints of military hardware...
...sense of humor. Alligator is a robust mutant of Them! and other '50s horror movies that took a no-nonsense approach to the threat of atomic apocalypse. Civilians run from the deadly menace; policemen walk toward The Thing because that's their job. Alligator provides a terse manual on the care, feeding and ultimate annihilation of 2,000-lb., 36-ft.-long reptiles-and on the art of making a grind-house movie with care and wit. Good Cop David Madison (Robert Forster, in an authoritatively low-key performance) is forever being reminded of his thinning hair...
Today's Eastern League contest is the more meaningful home opener. The Lions (3-3 EIBL, 10-7 overall) are always tough for Harvard, and you may see Kurt Lundgren pitch the kind of ballgame Rollie Acosta did the last time Columbia came north, back in the manual scoreboard days. Lundgren, a sophomore from Nanuet, N.Y., leads the entire 59-team ECAC in strikeouts with 60, and despite a 2-4 record and three straight bad outings, he's a guy capable of getting hot and whiffing 16 like he did while shutting out Dartmouth last year...