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Director Michael Ritchie borrows heavily from the work of John Frankenheimer. Fast, edgy editing and countless compositions involving television monitors come straight out of The Manchurian Candidate, where they looked and worked better. Most of The Candidate is constructed around press conferences, windswept campaign speeches and sweaty conferences in back rooms and back seats of limousines, giving the viewer the impression that he is looking at unused footage from a television documentary...
After only two days of outside practice, the Harvard tennis team faces the biggest hurdle of the entire season today when it takes on Columbia on the windswept clay courts of Morningside Heights. On Saturday the Crimson will face Princeton, the league's defending champions, and by winning both matches it would be virtually assured of its first EITA title since...
...Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science and Curator of Early Man at the University of Pennsylvania. Perhaps only someone with such an array of titles would drift into such rhetoric as "the frail confines of the human heart," and then, on the same page, "the windswept uplands of the human mind...
Representatives from 69 states, including assorted sheikdoms, poured into Iran for the monumental Jash'n (celebration) marking the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Awaiting the guests on a dusty, windswept, 5,000-ft.-high plain next to the ruins of Persepolis was a city that even Scheherazade could never have imagined: a 160-acre oasis studded with three huge royal "tents" and 59 lesser ones arranged in a star pattern. The tents were more or less permanent structures of synthetic fabric, with cement bases and wooden partitions; they were built...
...dawn broke over the Himalayas one chilly morning in 1962, thousands of crack Chinese troops swarmed south through 14,500-foot-high passes along Thag La Ridge, a windswept rim along part of the disputed border between Tibet and northeastern India. At the same time, more Chinese forces sprang into action 900 miles to the west in another disputed area, the sere wasteland known as Aksai Chin, or Desert of White Stone...