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...shopping center near Toronto last week, a young girl burst through the security guard around Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 53, and planted a kiss on his cheek. Another woman on the fringe of the crowd gushed: "He still has the aura." It was hard to believe that Trudeaumania-as Canadians called their particular political fervor four years ago-was again sweeping the land. But at the weary end of a seven-week campaign leading up to next week's national election, it was evident that Canadians were still fascinated with their Prime Minister...
What baffles many people who have witnessed similar episodes is why the nation is not up in arms over what may be the first documented case of political espionage in our history. Why is there no public reaction to the general aura of "the deal," as Senator Adlai Stevenson III describes it? Where is indignation? Where is the visceral sense that some fundamental arrangement of the society, some deeper human contracts or standards have been abused...
...FILM Drew is a nice but naive man who can't back it in the wilderness. The river adventures are so harrowingly detailed that we accept the necessity for survival ethics unquestionably doesn't attain a supernatural aura of self sufficiency and Bob's upset is offset by quiet strength (in the book he is an unmitigated bore). These two seam for the peace of their homes they hit land. And the only time we glimpse Lewis outside of his natural element is as he recuperates in a hospital...
...intense emotional and physical reactions of his audiences bear witness to the hole he has cracked through their fortified walls of intense self-repression. He is an unquestionably good actor and a competent singer and organist. His comparing himself to Mick Jagger is not at all baseless. Amidst an aura of religious righteousness rather than an atmosphere of Satanic evil, Marjoe, like Jagger, conducts an exercise in group masturbation legitimized by the central figure of authority, or in Jagger's case, of anti-authority...
...said that these 200 "pioneers" would foster "an aura of graciousness and scholarly virtue" in the Yard...