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...that the astronauts spotted on the slope of Fra Mauro's Cone Crater. The odd white sample, which contains a few dark flecks and streaks, may be as old as the moon and solar system: 4.6 billion years. As insurance against any loss of Apollo 14's precious cargo, NASA divided the rocks into two batches for the trip to Houston, shipping one with the astronauts and the other by special courier plane. So expertly had the astronauts operated as field geologists, that on future trips, said Paul Gast, the space center's chief lunar scientist, moon...
Third, Clavell's all-precious story itself hearkens back to movie times previous even to those implied by the details of its production. The dirty Western has been with us for a long time, especially since The Wild Bunch made it artistically valid; Clavell's new film is an attempt to make a dirty swashbuckler. Clavell fails, but not totally without honor; he fails, in fact, because of his integrity. There was always a kind of folk realism to the Western. Audiences related to the films historically: this was their image of their past, a totally moral...
Besides his political activities, DiCara keeps busy with civic organizations. He is Cubmaster of Troop 66, a committee type at the Knights of Columbus, an assistant in the CYO program at St. Gregory's, and a member of the Hyde Park Most Precious Blood Catholic Young Adult Club...
Prokosch complains that he fails to find the revolution anywhere in the film. But the revolution is everywhere in it, and that is its power. Thus the reviewer's rather presumptuous lecture to the Cubans, that they have no right to "waste" their precious resources on such "reactionary" films, misses the point completely. Whatever its defects may be, Memories of Underdevelopment is a daring departure, not only from traditional socialist esthetics but from the exhausted fictional forms of Hollywood and Western Europe; for that alone, it ought to be seen, and praised...
Miss Allingham's strength -and her husband's-is clear, serviceable prose, less careless than Agatha Christie's and less precious than Dorothy Sayers'. It must be said, though, that Mr. Campion began life in The Black Dudley Murder (1928) in unblushing imitation of Sayers' rococo creation, Lord Peter Wimsey. Both were lean, languid young noblemen who spoke in the high whine that Waugh classified as the British upper class baying for broken glass. Both concealed great skill and cunning behind a facade of graceful, gratuitous vagueness...