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...much for dialogue. Jennifer on My Mind is the saga of the ill-fated relationship born at this moment. Hero Marcus (Michael Brandon) is a footloose heir with a wallet and a head full of dough. Heroine Jennifer (Tippy Walker) is a flighty little psychopath with a couple of nasty habits-bitchiness and dope. After leading Marcus a merry chase from Venice to New York City and back again, she gives him the slip. He returns to the U.S. and settles down in an apartment in New Jersey, of all places, to try to forget. Jenny, by now badly strung...
...comes Jack Harnes, a Manhattan internist, who persuaded, the staid Journal of the American Medical Association to publish what may be the last word on the subject. In "The Foreskin Saga," Harnes puts the "debate" into perspective in a strikingly successful spoof of the ponderous,reports that usually appear in medical publications (among earlier titles of serious articles: "The Rape of the Phallus," "Penile Plunder"). Believing that the circumcision controversy is ludicrous and the sensual argument unprovable, Harnes merely concocted some insights and phony research...
Almost anyone, however, might mildly enjoy Evel Knievel, a cheerfully silly motorcycle saga based on the life of a professional daredevil and his wife Linda (Sue Lyon). The movie is best when dealing with Knievel's early exploits: harassing the small-town Montana cops, riding into a dormitory full of giggling co-eds in pursuit of his girl friend, and stunt driving in a rundown local rodeo. Soon Knievel (played improbably but ingratiatingly by George Hamilton) begins to build quite a reputation for himself, and even becomes a sort of folk hero. Crowds turn out from all over...
Newest Folk Hero. Neither Mitty nor Merriwell would have believed the Meriwether saga. But it is undeniably true that track's newest folk hero never raced in competition until a year ago. Meriwether explains that his high school in Charleston, S.C., had no track team, and the football team had no use for "a guy who was 6 ft. tall and weighed 135 lbs." At Michigan State, where he studied pre-med on a scholarship, his only brush with organized sports was a few hot games of volleyball. The first black accepted into Duke University School of Medicine...
...WHITE DAWN, AN ESKIMO SAGA by James Houston. 275 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...