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When a reporter phoned the Soviet foreign ministry to inquire about the Moscow crash twelve hours after it happened, an official replied: "What crash?" It was another six hours before Tass, the official news agency, reported the disaster, and still another 18 hours before Pravda covered it in twelve lines...
David (Jack Nicholson) is a late-night radio monologuist. Shy, self-absorbed to the point of obsession, he is a kind of FM Buddy Glass who rummages through his memories and fantasies looking for an always elusive epiphany. This odd, irresistibly fascinating film begins with one of his stories. "I...
The Sorrow speaks with a very personal voice. It deals primarily with ordinary Frenchmen and Germans who have reduced the Holocaust to forms of individual and family history. Helmuth Tausend, a German officer stationed in Clermont-Ferrand, first speaks of the war as a six-year separation from his new...
Win or lose, Namath generates more high-voltage excitement than any other player in the game. Indeed he is the sort of thrill producer that the N.F.L. badly needs these days. On the surface (whether it is Mother Nature's or Sudo Turf) the game still appears to be...
THE 1972 POLITICAL atmosphere reeks with the Watergate scandal, "cocktails and bologna sandwiches," ITT-Nixon fumblings, Eagleton disorders, subdued Agnewian imagery, campaign staff bickering, and an obsession with the impact of polls. In 1970, George McGovern began his campaign stressing issues, especially Vietnam; while last July President Nixon called this...