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...large part because of the gathering energy crisis. In the first seven months of 1972 the Oil Tool Division showed profits of $5.9 million, up 133% over the same period last year. Says Dietrich: "The per-share price of $28 is as good as Hughes will ever be apt to get again...
...lying with outflung arms on a bronze-cast roof tile, obscurely suggests the traditional image of crucifixion even though it could just as easily be a sunbather. De Kooning's new work is a matter of symptom, rather than code; its contortions carry less meaning than one is apt to suppose...
Ingmar Bergman is no longer making films about God and the devil, or expressionistic jousts between man and the unknown. A new Bergman movie is apt to seem more like a simple cry for human understanding. Mellower than he used to be, Bergman at the same time is perhaps even more prolific, and within the next few months his new concern with people will be seen not only in a new film, but on the stage, on television and in print...
Former Attorney General John Mitchell once said of the Nixon Administration, "Watch what we do instead of listening to what we say." It is an apt alert. The gulf between the two can be wide, and nowhere more so than on the subject of welfare reform. Nixon has long been on record as saying that reform of the "welfare mess" was his "White House priority No. 1." Yet for more than a year he has put little of his prestige and even less of his energy behind his own reform measures. Last week, with welfare legislation finally before the full...
When Shaw did get personal, he was apt to be insulting. He declared to Henry James: "It is really a damnable sin to draw with such consummate art a houseful of rubbish." After passing on his post as drama critic of London's Saturday Review to Max Beerbohm, he panned him ferociously. Beerbohm annoyed the master by observing that Shaw honestly believed that logic, not passion, made the world go round. How vulnerable G.B.S. the puritan superra-tionalist seems today in his rebuttal, waffling on about something he called "Reasonable Emotion...