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...cast belts them out. As the aging astronomy prof, and the geriatric football coach, Alice Faye and Gene Nelson attempt to hoof and puff and blow the house down; they only succeed in underlining the show's decrepitude. Nor can Michael Kidd's manic drill-sergeant direction hide the melancholy truth that because a thing is old does not mean it is an antique; junk is junk...
...July 1972, a camp sergeant in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman ordered Inmate William Hardin Bogard to take a sewing machine away from James B. ("Slick") Davis, a fellow inmate. Davis, who was allowed to work in the prison slaughterhouse even though he had been diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic, jammed a butcher knife into Bogard's spinal cord. The incident was Bogard's second bloody encounter with the malign brutality that has established Parchman as one of the most dangerous prisons in the U.S. Less than a year before, he was shot in the foot by another...
...said that on their way to the arrest, Dennehy and Scanlon picked up one Cambridge policeman in their car, and a sergeant arrived later. The man offered no resistance to arrest, Murphy said...
...staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque romances (who is, incidentally, one of Fowles' favorite writers). The Enigma, a marvelous piece of illusion, describes a London police sergeant's search for a paradigm of Establishment life in the form of a conservative M.P., who has, perhaps deliberately, disappeared...
Angie Dickinson, as Sergeant "Pepper" Anderson on NBC'S Police Woman (Friday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), is at least permitted to be just not-so-plain Angie, and any program that allows this attractive, good-humored actress to be her familiar self cannot be all bad. The regular supporting cast, headed by Earl Holliman, is competent, and the action sequences are crisp. There is also some attempt to put the cops in contact with interesting criminals and characterized victims...