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...ROALD by Barry Farrell. 241 pages. Random House...
...lottery system, based on a random selection of birth-dates, will draw men from a pool of 19-year-olds, instead of following the present policy of drafting the oldest men first...
...lottery will work by scrambling the days of the year. and then drawing them at random, each date being assigned a consecutive number...
WHEN THE WAR IS OVER by Stephen Becker. 240 pages. Random House...
...earlier films, his approach works, and not just because his talkative superstars sustain one's interest without a dramatic plan. Warhol's first films were long static takes of nearly motionless objects- the Empire State Building, a man sleeping. Despite their notoriety for selecting events and objects at random, and thus trying to destroy designed art, these films pushed cinema to its fundamentals and were Warhol's purest formal works. A subsequent series of sharply lit deep-focus features sustained interest through one's shifting attention within the static frame. One continually rediscovered the composition's different elements...