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...Royal Court, burst in with a message. Scanning the note that had been handed to him, the King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation from Jerusalem and summoned the Egyptian parliament into special session...
...hard to swallow, it is partly because the epic is flecked with moments of perverse brutality, a kind of sensuous enjoyment of the grotesque. At the film's end, scenes that made the audience shudder aloud in the opening few minutes are repeated; and now they seem commonplace, even acceptable, for the film had had far more brutal moments. At times, Bertolucci's love for vivid detail and for visual lushness results in scenes of great beauty--a bride galloping on a white horse through the mist and poplar trees, a small boy playing in the river, a group...
...shuns details. Although he is tolerant of dissent, the President is impatient with staff work. "I don't want people to organize me," he says. He detests reading reports and prefers to have them delivered orally. Most letters from Jimmy Carter, for example, are read to him aloud by the U.S. Ambassador. Because there are so few able men around him, many of Sadat's own directives seem to melt away when they reach Egypt's swollen bureaucracy. The President keeps the important decisions secret; his ministers, and even his wife, usually hear about them the same...
Brzezinski read aloud to Carter one ambassador's pompously self-congratulatory account of how he had wowed an audience with a speech. Both men broke...
Near the end of A Handful of Dust ( 1934), Evelyn Waugh sentenced one of his characters to a bizarre fate. Tony Last was trapped forever in the backwaters of the Amazon, held prisoner by an illiterate half-breed who demanded, at gunpoint, that Tony read aloud to him the collected works of Charles Dickens. Waugh's barbed tribute to Dickens' universal popularity hilariously summed up an attitude then prevalent among the literati: Dickens was fine for soothing savage breasts, but he was not a writer with whom educated gents would care to spend much time...