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...opportunity to go it one better: they can turn landscape into a character, a protagonist as dramatically charged as any human figure can possibly be. Carroll Ballard, who directed the lovely The Black Stallion, has taken this commercially risky chance with Never Cry Wolf and has made something splendid...
...Montana show that the animals were dying well before the asteroid hit. Says he: "We probably shall never know why these fabulous reptiles, so long the masters of the continents, should have disappeared completely from the earth." It is the only really pessimistic, and perhaps questionable, note in this splendid retrospective account...
...time the Games have been organized by a company, not a city. We're trusting that the Olympic spirit and the spirit of amateurism will be preserved." And many who have inspected the individual venues have cheered. "The facilities are extraordinarily good, among the best we've ever had, splendid," says Wolf Lyberg of Sweden...
...Kingsley's triumph is one of energy over inspiration. He seems not to realize that in a one-man show, the only person he can upstage is himself. One wants to say to him: Ben, you got the part. Relax a little, and be what you are: a splendid actor and a brand-new star. -By Richard Corliss
...final assessment of him came only when an enormous retrospective exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 made it possible for the first time to see the myriad elements of his work all together and in perspective. He had been dead seven years, but the Museum of Modern Art's splendid show was, as much as any battlefront communiqué, news...