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Feathers, beaks, combs and claws -nonedible elements-fall into a trough that flushes the refuse to a rendering plant across the street. The refuse is then converted into chicken feed that is recycled into the next generation of broilers, who become unwitting cannibals. This super-streamlined operation, which uses everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Everything But the Cluck | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

Doc Watson is probably the greatest living flat-picking guitar player. His performances are invariably distinguished not just be occasional bursts of dazzling speed or by audience-winning tricks, but by an unerring sense of timing and mood which might enable him to make a country rendition of the Boston...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Too Easy a Success | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

THE ACTING BEARS a pleasing stamp of subtle naturalness due in large part to the improvisational style of the filming. Bulle Ogier, best known for her performance in La Salamandre, sensitively depicts Claire as a woman whose self-destructiveness lurks under a surface of softness. Little signs -- as when she...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Long Journey Into Madness | 5/4/1973 | See Source »

Pleasing Decision

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Harvard, MIT Students Win Appeal for New Hearings | 4/20/1973 | See Source »

Yet some of Bertolucci's characteristic romantic ambivalence toward modern life shines through. Paris in rich golds and browns is even more pleasing than it was in The Conformist. In the final phase of the film, even this romance breaks down, as Brando walks past wrecked buildings and muttering peep...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Reacting and Eluding | 3/29/1973 | See Source »

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