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...ever come down that winter (on both sides of the road) was down. Two and a half days of skiing out of a promised seven. Now we emerged from our wooden cocoon and took the long hike up the stairs-all 250 of them-to see what had been wrought. But the snow had come down off the cliff and flooded into the tunnel, so we had to shovel our way out onto the road...
...overdue for a sport that has been rigidly divided into haves and havenots: the same eight teams have monopolized the Super Bowl, playing one another again and again for a total of 18 appearances in the championship's twelve-year history. But parity on the field was wrought, at least in part, in the rule book. With the regular season expanded by two games to a total of 16, the league shifted to scheduling that pitted top teams against top teams and also-rans against also-rans more often than ever. The new scheme eliminated the sort of scheduling...
...confessional splurge works against the kind of detached, highly wrought structure that art needs. There have been exceptions, of course...
Forgetting the last war and pretending that Vietnam does not exist cannot lessen U.S. responsibility for the devastation it wrought there. The U.S. has a moral duty and sound pragmatic reasons for participating in the development of an economically rebuilt Vietnam. After all, the U.S. very nearly succeeded in simulating lunar conditions in Vietnam. Carter claimed last year that "the destruction was mutual (and that) we ought not to assume the status of culpability." This position is patently absurd in light of the destruction inflicted on both North and South...
...film is plainly a tribute to Igmar Bergman, the master at expressing intense emotion and psychological drama on film. Allen emulates Bergman as a student would imitate the master of his craft. The effort, though somewhat over-wrought, like that of a too-careful student, succeeds. A talented cast, well-directed, saves the heavy screenplay from sinking into murky melodrama. Mary Beth Hurt, as the youngest daughter, the one with "all the anguish of an artistic personality without any of the talent," is especially good in her film debut. And Geraldine Page evokes the neurotic woman "too perfect to live...