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...comic creation as monstrously beguiling as Tartuffe. He shares with Moliere's sham holy man the gift of ever renewed plausibility. Time and again, just as the audience is ready to withdraw its sympathy in disgust, Le Roux exposes the hypocrisies of opponents so tellingly that he becomes persuasive anew. When outraged employees confront him, his retort is blunt and seemingly unanswerable: If an unfettered press is crucial to a free society, then why have Fleet Street journalists squandered their energies on look-alike rags compounded of crime, cleavage, gossip about royalty and page upon page of sports...
Arriving at Harvard to start anew in their sophomore or junior years, transfer students find members of their class already well settled and adjusted. They face the difficult task of integrating themselves into the Harvard community with few peers to share their experience, and without the automatic sympathy and commiseration traditionally extended to freshmen...
...Letting a hundred flowers blossom," said Chairman Mao, is a sure sign of "a flourishing socialist culture." Interpreting the Chairman's thought anew, with a view toward tourism, China is busily establishing golf courses. Ground was broken last week for one in the Valley of the Ming Tombs, 30 miles from Peking, by Politburo Member Wang Zhen. As Wang, 76, chopped away with a wedge on a slope that will soon sprout Kentucky bluegrass, a controversy was simmering over the selection of the site...
...Scorsese and Frank Capra, came to Bogdanovich's defense; so did an impromptu protest committee, Moviegoers Against Studio Kibitzing (M.A.S.K.). So the picture offers two parables: one of Hollywood devouring its own, one of the man in the lion mask. The second is worth attending to, for it demonstrates anew that there is such a thing as an honest cry at the movies...
...were to be reargued while others were not remains a mystery, but one result was clear: much court work was done to little purpose. And there may be more such outcomes; Powell has missed oral arguments in 56 cases. His health and the eight non-results last week highlight anew the court's age. In the event of a vacancy, the Reagan Administration is ready with an updated list of prospective Justices. White House Counsel Fred Fielding told TIME last week that he has also constituted a small new committee to advise the President on Supreme Court nominations. There...