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Actors Stanley and Redford pump fresh air into Krasna's saggy script, especially its laugh-shy first act. But they cannot camouflage the fact that this type of play has long been outgrown by just about everyone whose first love was not a box office...
...burden falls on Hong Kong. There, TIME Bureau Chief Stan Karnow presides over a tedious and essential operation akin to wartime intelligence gathering. He and Correspondents Jerry Schecter and Loren Fessler interview European and Asian businessmen who travel in and out of China, see diplomats down from Peking, pump the occasional Swiss journalist who gets a mainland visa. They keep a man posted at Kowloon railroad station to watch for arrivals from Canton; they get word of refugees arriving at Macao, and interview them-poor, haggard and inarticulate people who can tell of the rice ration in their own village...
...state-financed but remarkably free of state control, the film uses no dialogue (just a light musical score) and begins with an unpromising situation: its hero, a plain-looking fellow, parks his automobile at a lakeside beach, unpacks a plastic beach mattress and fills it, using a hand pump...
Pneumatic bliss gets out of hand. The girl goes off by herself for a swim, and he has to pump up a shark to scare her back into his arms. A bronze-god water skier comes along and skis her off to a romantic island for a torrid love scene...
...surgical team headed by Dr. John E. Connolly made an incision in the anesthetized patient's neck, to get at one of the carotid arteries that supply blood to the brain. First they drew out some blood, and added donor blood, to fill the pump-oxygenator ("heart-lung machine"). To this was attached a cooler that chilled the oxygenated blood. The surgeons led this chilled blood into the brain arteries. After about 15 minutes the brain temperature dropped to 68°. The doctors then stopped the flow and clamped all the brain arteries shut. The patient...