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...Philadelphia competition will be the match-ups in the preliminary heats. There is no seeding system for the nationals. Conceivably, the best six teams could wind up in the same preliminary heat. Since only the top three teams of the heats will advance to the finals, this set-up increases the pressure on a young team such as Radcliffe, which hasn't had much experience in such pressure-packed national rowing events...
Director Wise has made some excellent movies (The Set-Up, Odds Against Tomorrow) but has become better known of late for such otiose blockbusters as The Sound of Music and Star. Two People looks to be his attempt to get to a smaller, more meaningful scale, but he seems to be still out of touch with the most basic kind of emotional reality. Fonda, consistently underkeyed, and Parsons, forever frazzled, contribute what little the movie has to offer. Wagner, who looks about as much like a high-fashion model as a drive-in carhop, remains throughout a stranger to conviction...
...there but that is unfortunately all that is shown. Nowhere is there a hint of why these people feel the way they do given. Notoriously absent in the film is any sort of indepth discussion with actual Provisional IRA members, particularly those on the lower rungs of the power set...
...power could take. The Commission does not now--nor will it probably ever--have the power to rule on content and usage by fiat, as the idealist would have it do. While the industry remains small and barely manageable, the Commission has a chance to force a franchise set-up which will make the cable accessible to the public rather than the special interests...
...there was more. In 1971, the Crimson had converted from linetype production to offset, which was the set-up the News had been using...