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...first moments Bonnie and Clyde flirts with the idea of being an art movie, but before any real damage is done, the director, the writers, and the cameraman abandon their collective self-consciousness and the worst temptation is past. What follows is an extraordinary film...
...proposal, passed Friday, urged Richard T. Gill's committee on Mather House "to abandon" the option of increasing class size to fill the House. HUC, by vote of 8-7 at its meeting, substituted a weaker statement urging the Gill committee to "discuss the option of increasing class size to fill the House only in the larger context of educational policy and the philosohpy of the House system...
...Republican Howard Baker netted five other tautly strung Republicans for doubles duty in something called the U.S. Senate Tennis championship. The Washingtonian knew what it was talking about. Democrats Clark and Claiborne Pell (R.I.) knocked off Illinois' Charles Percy and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond with loveless abandon. Massachusetts' Edward Brooke and Baker bounced back for the G.O.P. against Walter Mondale (Minn.) and Joseph Tydings (Md.), but Democrats Ernest Hollings (S.C.) and William Spong (Va.) swept through top-seeded Jack Javits and Peter Dominick (Colo.) to take the title. Moaned Javits: "As a lawyer...
Slow Motion. But as Chairman Mills prepared to lead his committee into executive sessions behind locked doors, the White House was ready to abandon hope for a new tax, at least for this year. "I think the boys are just going to stand around the campfire for a couple of weeks," said Republican Representative Herman T. Schneebeli, a member of Mills's committee. "It's going to be a study in slow motion." Ranged against the experts are Congressmen who must face the voters next year; even as Congress voted a record $70 billion appropriation for defense, they...
Love & Art. For his terrifying, black penetration of the heart, Paul Bowles commands cold admiration. Living in Africa, corresponding with America in a kind of code, he uses the same metaphors of loneliness and abandon that signaled his leap from music to the novel with The Sheltering Sky in 1949. His work is art, a minor art, mirroring a part truth-that man is alone. The other part of the truth is that man has the power to break out of his loneliness through two forces: love and art. Bowles knows the second, not the first...