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Lacombe, Lucien-which played at the New York Film Festival last week to considerable acclaim-is set in provincial France during the summer and fall of 1944, when Germany's defeat began to seem certain. Lucien (Pierre Blaise), still in his teens, works in a hospital ward. The cries and murmurs of pain from the wounded cause him to turn toward the window, to the summer sunlight. He sees a bird in a nearby tree, singing, and with a certain glee, kills it with his slingshot. It is almost a reflexive action, without real significance to Lucien...
Sixty used to be considered what Keats called the season of "mellow fruit-fulness." But Mr. Keep Fit, Jack La Lanne, whose name adorns 85 muscle salons across the U.S., declared: "Proper living can ward off the aging process...
...represents Eisenstein's effort to re-integrate himself with the Stalin regime after a long period of disfavor. Alexander Nevsky is in every sense a one-dimensional film. Its theme is patriotism, and its message, directed in no uncertain terms at Nazi Germany, is that Russia will ward off any attempt at conquest. The film takes place in 1242, when combined Russian armies under the leadership of Prince Alexander Nevsky, defeated the invading German force. Eisenstein uses these events in a less than subtle allegory about what would happen in the event of an attack by Hitler on the Soviet...
...hospital, having just given birth to a girl. The Abbruzzeses had already decided to name the baby Katherine Elizabeth-the Elizabeth for Betty Ford. Susan Ford, who had been the Abbruzzeses' baby sitter for years, left her mother and delivered a present to the maternity ward-two satin baby pillows that Mrs. Ford had wrapped while awaiting her namesake's arrival...
Like many black athletes, Foreman grew up poor. He was the son of a railroad worker in Houston's Fifth Ward, a ghetto that even today throbs with uneasily repressed violence. His parents separated when George was a boy, and he dropped out of school in the eighth grade, quickly becoming a terror on the streets. Drunk on rotgut wine, "Monkey" Foreman was a savage gang fighter. "When we started a fight, we'd look around to see if Monkey was there," recalls Don Thomas, a former gang member with Foreman. "You had two or three cats whipped...