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Chambers, then a TIME senior editor, gave the papers to the pretrial investigators in the libel case, but he held back the film, partly because he wanted to learn what was on it. Word of Chambers' sensational new revelations quickly reached the House Un-American Activities Committee, before which he had originally accused Hiss. When Committee Member Richard M. Nixon issued a subpoena for any further evidence, Chambers led agents to his Maryland farm and pointed to a hollowed-out pumpkin. Fearful of prowling Hiss investigators, he said, he had put the films in the pumpkin while...
...conflict between European urbanity and Doyle's simple "I'm an American and we're the best so fuck you" attitude. He proves his courage, yes, but he also makes a complete fool of himself--and, wonder of wonders in a picture like this--he shows monstrous inefficiency. Very un-American and very unpoheevian-like. He's much more loveable this way, and surrounded by Marseilles's exotic side-streets his vulnerability takes on a meaning lost in the mad avenues of New York...
Brooks had the shrewdness and good taste to cast not only Hackman but the excellent, sardonic James Coburn as his buddy and friendly rival. After that, in spiration fails. Pace, so crucial to un dertakings of this kind, is maintained at the approximate speed of a lazy canter. Characters race a piece, dismount, talk things over, get to know each other a little, then start racing again. No one, however, becomes either familiar enough or real enough to make it a matter of much concern who wins the race...
...endowment and more money from local alumni used for funding scholarships for area students, an area where Philadelphia's Harvard Club lags far behind others, Humenuk says. Philadelphia's alumni are wealthy but they regularly give to their class instead of the local-level scholarships, Randall says not un-approvingly. He claims the Philadelphia alum's give most religiously, especially when the funds are badly needed, regardless of what is happening on the campus--including the strike of 1969 and the elimination of ROTC from campus, which made all the local papers...
...controlling force in the class was odd in a way and I've often wondered if it was simply Harvard. After all some of our class were less than two winters away from huddling in foxholes around Bastogne with their commander, in a very un-H-way, replying "Nuts" to the Third Panzer Army's demand for surrender. And some--of them had even seen Patton, plain. Or though a glass, darkly, pear-handled pistols, white bulldogs, boots, spurs and all, depending on how you saw the man. They don't have this kind around anymore, which is all part...