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...Said Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker Jr.: "The Senate will give its advice before it gives its consent. The Senate is not going to accept a pig in a poke." Both Carter and Brezhnev have warned the Senate against insisting on changes. Said the Soviet leader in Vienna: "Any attempt to rock this elaborate structure, to substitute any of its elements, to pull it closer to one's self, would be an unprofitable exercise. The entire structure might then collapse." Scoffed the unconvinced Jackson: "They're already trying to do a little blackmailing...
Thus the main attempt at Tokyo will be to devise a joint three-pronged strategy to 1) cut consumption in order to reduce imports, 2) spur greater effort in developing alternative energy sources, and 3) form a united purchasing front. If forceful joint action can be decided in all three areas, some slack could be reintroduced into the world oil market and some sanity returned to its pricing. In Paris last week, "Sherpas"-the foot-slogging diplomats and economists who have been preparing the climb to the summit for four months-were still poring over a number of possible actions...
...seems safe to say that Italian Director Ermanno Olmi is no fan of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900. Like 1900, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a lengthy (three hours), luxuriously photographed film about Italian peasants, but after that all similarities end. 1900 was a didactic epic that attempted to merge the florid drama of opera with the tenets of Marxism; Clogs is pointedly a tranquil, nonpolemical attempt to describe the peasants' daily existence in the objective manner of documentary cinema. Given their respective goals, Olmi's movie is the more successful of the two- yet at what...
...including those made by the Marx Brothers which were unique in their own way) continued to exploit non-verbal, absurd gags. More contemporaneous comedians such as Jerry Lewis, Peter Sellers and Mel Brooks also rely heavily on verbal puns and physical mise-en-scene, yet still with no attempt made to convey it in cinematic terms. In contrast, Woody Allen has gradually and continously cultivated a singular approach to the comedy genre, stimulating laughter by auditory-visual devices which contribute a unique dimension and meaning to his films. Allen's work, consequently, marks a significant step in the evolution...
Nowhere is editorial ambivalence more apparent than on the question of supporting the Progressive magazine in its attempt to publish an article and chart showing how a nuclear bomb works. The magazine is now under federal injunction not to publish its report, an unprecedented case of prior restraint that is troubling to all editors. Overcoming their initial misgivings, the board of directors of the A.S.N.E. voted unanimously to support the Progressive's appeal. With somewhat less agonizing, the American Society of Magazine Editors last week announced that it too would back the appeal...