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There are events that spark the fire beneath the seeming mask of indifference to the world of jockdom. A winning team or a big game can turn that quiet evening out with the team into an orgy...
...most striking flourish. Its scene is not the expected lavish suite, but a steam-bath replete with floating tea-trays and chess-games. It's a crude American vulgarization, inspired no doubt by the array of gadgetry available to backyard swimming pool aficianados, but it works wonderfully to spark dialogue-dulled attentions back onto the screen. There are little self-parodies of the film's seriousness like this throughout, and while they work to keep your attention they only attest to a certain amount of disinterestedness in the real story and its need for extensive but-tressing...
...Ford wouldn't normally represent an important change--though it might rid the presidency of the petty corruption and vindictiveness that today make it an object for laughter as well as sorrow. But an impeachment trial, with the full presumably cathartic public discussion it would inevitably entail, could help spark a rebirth of democracy and a militance about popular participation in making decisions that hasn't been seen in this country since the New Deal. Nixon is right. It is time to stop wallowing in issues of personal guilt or innocence. It's time to defend ourselves against assaults against...
Died. Alfred Ezra Mirsky, 73, distinguished biochemist at New York City's Rockefeller University who in the 1940s helped spark the infant field of molecular biology by devising a technique for isolating the genetic material chromatin in the cells of animals; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...death of Michael Gaughan, 24, an Irish Republican Army member and Catholic Ulster's newest martyr, in an English prison could have proved the spark. Sentenced in 1971 to seven years for conspiring to rob a London bank for the I.R.A., Gaughan began a hunger strike March 30 as a show of solidarity with two other I.R.A. hunger strikers, Dolours and Marion Price (see box page 38). His weight had dropped from 160 Ibs. to 84 Ibs. The British government said that he died of pneumonia; Gaughan's family insisted that Michael died after prison doctors injured...